Re: BLKGETSIZE64 not documented

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Andre,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Re-sending this as it seems to have fallen through the cracks.]
>
> No trace of BLKGETSIZE64 in
> www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-3.54.tar.xz
>
> I think it should be listed along BLKGETSIZE in sd(4).
>
> Probably applies to fd(4) and hd(4) too.
>
> And of course ioctl_list(2) but completing _that_ one sounds
> like a major project in itself. <g>
>
> Note that /usr/include/linux/fs.h quotes the argument as being
> "*u64" but I believe that it would be better written as
> "*uint64_t", which is standard.
>
> There may be other related ioctl()s missing, like those used in
> blockdev(8), I'm reporting the one I'm sure about.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Would you be able to write a patch for this?

Thanks,

Michael

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