svn commit: r191984 - in head/sys: cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/rpc modules/zfs

Kip Macy kmacy at freebsd.org
Tue May 12 08:16:35 UTC 2009


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Doug Rabson <dfr at rabson.org> wrote:
>
> On 12 May 2009, at 06:03, Kip Macy wrote:
>
>> Here is the problem, FreeBSD is sloppy about 32-bit vs. 64-bit for xdr
>> whereas in the kernel, Solaris is not.
>
> I thought that XDR 'long' types were 32 bit regardless of whether the
> platform was 32 or 64 bit. I'll have to read the code again.

I'm not familiar with XDR, so I might be in error. If you could
reconcile the differences between Solaris and FreeBSD so that ZFS can
use FreeBSD's XDR implementation I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Kip



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