Re: toolchain/33924: feature request: makefs(8) should output blocks used by each file

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/33924; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>
To: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: toolchain/33924: feature request: makefs(8) should output blocks 
used by each file
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:27:10 +0300

 On Fri Oct 24 2008 at 13:12:42 +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
 > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:20:04PM +0000, Antti Kantee wrote:
 > >  On modern NetBSD, such utilities should be written using the rump and ukfs
 > >  libraries so that they work on all file systems and do not unnecessarily
 > >  duplicate file system specific knowledge in the utility.
 > 
 > "makefs" can be used while cross-building on a platform other than NetBSD.
 > AFAIK "rump" cannot be used on other platform.
 
 Your knowledge is wrong.
 
 Might not work out-of-the-box, though, as I haven't lately been paying
 much attention to non-NetBSD platforms or tested them, since there are
 currently no users in the tree.  At least the pthread_islocked_np()
 calls are likely to need some massaging.  Then again, compiling without
 DIAGNOSTIC on non-NetBSD might work as a quick fix.