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SubjectRe: BLKGETSIZE64 is broken (0x80041272)

> I was adding ioctl translations and found that BLKGETSIZE64
> equals 0x80041272, with wrong size. Apparently, a whole bunch
> of ioctls takes sizeof(sizeof(foo)), which evaluates to 4
> in 32 bit userland, regardless of the size of foo.
> Are we going to do anything about it? At the bare minimum,
> I suggest we add comments near EVERY of the offenders,
> marking them as broken and warning that we are leaving them
> as is for binary compatibility. I compared 2.4 and 2.5, and
> the same breakage is present in both, only more people fell
> for this trap in 2.5, so it obviously needs some action.

Thats old news :) Check out ppc64 and sparc64 ioctl32.c, its ugly but we
have to translate them.

Anton
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