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List:       gfs-devel
Subject:    Re: [gfs-devel] using getopt with chars is no good for Linux/390...
From:       David Teigland <teigland () sistina ! com>
Date:       2001-01-26 15:11:42
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:49:02AM +0100, Raimund.Schroeder@de.ibm.com wrote:

> Yesterday, I spent some time investigating why meatware stomithing did not
> work on Linux/390. Eventually, I encountered a known "problem": on Linux/390,
> a char is unsigned such that conditions like 'c != -1' will always yield true
> if c is just defined as char. I reported similar problems some time earlier
> (and they got corrected), so I grep'ed through the source and would like to
> suggest to use getopt together with integers only. I have attached a patch
> against the production release of GFS-4.

Sorry about doing that again - I've made the changes.
Thanks

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Dave Teigland  <teigland@sistina.com>
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