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

[Xin LI]

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Hi,

On 2010/06/22 19:58, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I am getting more than 4 thousand of the following messages a day:
> 
> WARNING pid 24509 (python2.6): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffff8004667e
[...]

I think we may need to check the code and patch it.  Basically this
means that python (or some .so modules) passed an int or unsigned int as
parameter 'cmd', we need to change it  to unsigned long.

The warning itself should be harmless to my best of knowledge, one can
probably remove the printf in kernel source code as a workaround.

By the way it seems to be a POSIX violation and we didn't seem to really
use so wide cmd, but I have not yet verified everything myself.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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