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

[John Mark Walker]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.

Can someone please file them so that we can track this in Bugzilla?

Thanks,
JM