[Gluster-devel] [Solved] Re: Unable to get volume name (GlusterFS 3.3 on Solaris 11)

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 07/10/2012 07:35 AM, XinFeng Liu wrote:
>>> I looked at the source code, it seems "dict_get_str (dict, "volname",
>>> &volname)" did not succeed. Any hint about it?
>
> I found the reason:
> $ vi ./cli/src/cli-rpc-ops.c
>
>          ret = dict_allocate_and_serialize (dict,
>                                             &req.dict.dict_val,
>                                             (size_t *)&req.dict.dict_len);
>
> size_t is ulong_t, while  dict_len's type is uint_t, on 64-bit
> Big-Endian system like SPARC, it causes the wrong result: dict_len
> becomes 0.

My 2¢: the source is not 64-bit clean. It happens to work on LE 
hardware, but that's just a lucky side effect of LE.

> I find that same changes are needed at too many places , so I decided
> to give up building 64-bit SPARC.

These are all legitimate bugs and should be fixed.

-- 

Kaleb