Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

On Saturday February 4, bluca@comedia.it wrote:

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:37:45PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:18:33PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:

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I am pleased to announce the availability of
  mdadm version 2.3

and i am pleased to reply with the first patch for mdadm 2.3,
which will allow building on 64bit machines.

A more knowledgeable C programmer than me suggested using PRIu64
instead of casting to format correctly theese printfs, what do you
think about it?

Which way to work around a shortcoming in the C language?
I don't think either is clearly better, though I suspect using PRIu64
might make internationalisation of the strings somewhat harder.

Being largely a kernel programmer these days, and as the kernel tends
to cast the number rather than massage the format string, I would
prefer to do that (i.e. put in the cast like your patch did).

Thanks,
NeilBrown