Re: dev_t inconsistency

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:25:17 +0000

reimer@doe.carleton.ca said:
> I seem to be running into a problem where dev_t is defined in the
> kernel in asm/posix_types.h as a unsigned short, and dev_t in the
> modified mount et al. programs is defined in gnu/types.h as unsigned
> long long int.

Use __kernel_dev_t instead of dev_t where it's being passed to the kernel.

> are the two dev_ts supposed to be the same...

Eventually, yes. No-one's got round to implementing it yet, though. You'll
find exactly the same with uid_t, gid_t, mode_t and probably others, and it's
unlikely to change before 2.3

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