ports/94088: lang/ruby18 ioctl cause sign-extension noises on amd64

Sun Mar 5 10:40:09 UTC 2006

>Number:         94088
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       lang/ruby18 ioctl cause sign-extension noises on amd64
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 05 10:40:08 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ariff Abdullah
>Release:        6.1-PRERELEASE
>Organization:
FreeBSD
>Environment:
FreeBSD misaki64.MyBSD.org.my 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Mar  3 23:53:36 MYT 2006     root at misaki64.MyBSD.org.my:/usr/obj/mnt/misaki32/usr/src/sys/MISAKI64  amd64
>Description:
Wrong type of integer argument to ioctl(2) cause lang/ruby18 to produce lots of sign-extension noises through console / kernel log on FreeBSD/amd64.
>How-To-Repeat:
Get http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/acpiio.rb , execute it.
>Fix:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ports/lang_ruby18-patch-io.c
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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