[OpenAFS-devel] "struct buf" in src/afs (libafs/libuafs)

[Frank Batschulat - Solaris Sustaining Engineering]

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> wrote:
>Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:01:09 -0600
>Perhaps it's only present on some architectures, and not on others.
>Seems to me that something similar to the dummy define I did would be
>needed, but possibly in a big ifdef to check and see if it's defined or
>not.
>
>I just checked, looks like it is defined on FBSD but not on Linux.
>Haven't looked at solaris or hpux yet. So, probably something that

Of course, solaris defines it's own struct buf in /usr/include/sys/buf.h

frankB



>defines it in certain cases, and not in others would be worthwhile. 
>
>Anyone interested in throwing together an autoconf check for struct buf
>being known?
>
>-- Nathan
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com 
>> [mailto:Craig_Everhart@transarc.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:31 AM
>> To: Neulinger, Nathan
>> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] "struct buf" in src/afs (libafs/libuafs)
>> 
>> 
>> Hm.  There really is a "struct buf" in the kernel, defined in 
>> some file
>> like /usr/include/sys/buf.h (on some kernels).  It's probably pretty
>> important for the cache manager to run on the client side, to use the
>> kernel version as opposed to a dummy version.
>> 
>> 		Craig
>> 
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