Inconsistency and bug with *chflags functions

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 16:48:14 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:18:08AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> The downcast in the call to setfflags() is safe, but the type puns given
> by the wrong types in syscalls.master are not.  I think the big-endian
> 64-bit long case is the only case seriously broken by these puns, but
> FreeBSD doesn't notice since it doesn't support any big-endian 64-bit
> arches.
Just a note, do you consider sparc64/mips64/powerpc64 unsupported ?
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