On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:56:25 +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Guillem Jover: > > On kFreeBSD there's FIOGETLBA, but it seems to only be implemented for > > the cd9660 file system, so not of much use. Also AFAIU from taking a > > look at Linux, FIBMAP is being phased out by FIEMAP? > > FIBMAP is the correct system call here because FIEMAP does unnecessary > work.
Yeah, that's also what I gathered from checking the kernel sources, but then the comments on the code and some docs seem to point to it being phased out, so dunno. > It's root-only, though, and there are some concerns if it's > actually safe to use (because no one could give a compelling reason > why it was made root-only---FIEMAP isn't). Yesterday I tracked down when the CAP_SYS_RAWIO check was added, on 2.2.11, but could not find any announcement with the description why that change happened. I don't see why it would be unsafe, it just returns an int, and the worst that could happen from dpkg side is that we use a wrong order. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
