FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE: WARNING ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffff8004667e

[Andriy Gapon]

on 23/06/2010 05:58 Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira said the following:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I am getting more than 4 thousand of the following messages a day:
> 
> WARNING pid 24509 (python2.6): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffff8004667e

This ioctl is FIONBIO.
I believe that I saw another report about it on this list recently (~1 week
ago).  But it was for a different software.

> 	I've already recompiled all my python ports and dependencies.
> I am running up to date ports (today).
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD exxodus.fedaykin.here 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #10: Thu Jun 17 12:28:13 BRT 2010     lioux at exxodus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIOUX  amd64
> 
> 	These messages began this past week but I am not sure what
> might be to blame: latest ports or latest -STABLE.

I guess it would be some port.

> 	The specific python port is deluge 1.3 RC1. It was running
> fine before this past week of changes.
> 
> 	Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this? Do I
> have to be alarmed by this? The system is reliable despite these
> messages.

This messages just warns about bad programming, but in this case the ioctl is
processed correctly.

-- 
Andriy Gapon