Subject: Re: sysinst to vnd0: Rewrite of MBR failed. I can't continue.
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/04/2006 00:47:44 
>   15463      1 sysinst  CALL  pwrite(3,0xbfbfe4f4,0x200,0,0,0)

> (um... according to our manpage, pwrite only takes 4 args, not 6...
> what's going on?)

You're on a 32-bit machine.  Two of the arguments printed are the
halves of the 64-bit off_t argument.  The sixth is padding, to align
the off_t argument on a natural boundary relative to the beginning of
the argument list.

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