[klibc] [PATCH] fcntl takes unsigned long as third arg

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Wed Aug 25 16:36:57 PDT 2004


The syscall defines only a signed long, but the kernel expects unsigned.
No idea if this is intentional or if it breaks anything. I just had to
look why gcc complained about pointer to int conversions.

diff -p -purN klibc-0.168/klibc/SYSCALLS.def klibc-0.168.fcntl/klibc/SYSCALLS.def
--- klibc-0.168/klibc/SYSCALLS.def      2004-08-03 03:04:30.000000000 +0200
+++ klibc-0.168.fcntl/klibc/SYSCALLS.def        2004-08-25 15:32:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ int close(int)
 <32> int _llseek::__llseek(int, unsigned long, unsigned long, off_t *, int)
 int dup(int)
 int dup2(int, int)
-int fcntl(int, int, long)
+int fcntl(int, int, unsigned long)
 int ioctl(int, int, void *)
 int flock(int, int)
 int _newselect,select::select(int, fd_set *, fd_set *, fd_set *, struct timeval *)


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