Re: knfsd problem in late 2.1

Anders Hammarquist (iko@netg.se)
Thu, 21 May 1998 15:50:36 +0200

>ak@muc.de wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:16:07PM +0200, David S. Miller wrote:
>> >
>> > kdev_t != dev_t, this is the bug, printing out the two values in hex
>> > would have made this obvious and it's the first thing I did...
>> >
>> > (gdb) p/x 33554436
>> > $2 = 0x2000004
>> > (gdb) p/x 2052
>> > $3 = 0x804
>>
>> Yuck, should have checked that. Thanks. I guess the right fix is to
>> just remove the device check then.
>
>Perhaps it's a glibc problem? Usually when someone reports a kdev_t vs
>dev_t problem, it's because of a glibc header difference.

It does indeed look alot like the troubles you get when compiling unpatched
knfs tools with glibc.

>I think there's a patch around to make the nfs tools work right with
>glibc.

Mine is available from any Debian mirror in project/experimental/knfsd*.
I've heard rumors of other patches floating around too.

Regards,
/Anders

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