From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" <naruse@...>
Date: 2012-05-13T00:23:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:45011] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6427] ruby ioctl: Error integer 2148012656 too big to convert to `int'


Issue #6427 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).


shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) wrote:
> Both ruby and glibc header file (and Ubuntu's manpage of ioctl(2)) agree that
> ioctl takes int, and 2148012656 is greater than INT_MAX.  Hence the exception.
> 
> You have to use -2146954640 instead.

The manpage of ioctl(2) says that the type of its 2nd argument is int, but it is a lie.
The prototype of ioctl(2) in /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h says it is unsigned int.
extern int ioctl (int __fd, unsigned long int __request, ...) __THROW;

Bug #5429 is the issue and it says:
* Free Unix uses unsigned int
* Commercial Unix uses int

This issue is fixed in trunk but not backported to 1.9.3 yet.
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Bug #6427: ruby ioctl: Error integer 2148012656 too big to convert to `int'
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6427#change-26594

Author: hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]


Hi,

the upgrade to ubuntu 12.04 came with an upgrade to ruby 1.9.3.
Unfortunately, in recent 1.9.3 versions of ruby there's a bug in the
ioctl function. E.g. if you want to do getbsz() on a block device and do
a

f.ioctl(0x80081270,a)

you'll get the error message

Error integer 2148012656 too big to convert to `int'
RangeError

(2148012656 = 0x80081270)

So ruby can't do ioctl's anymore if the highest bit is set in the ioctl code. 

This was working code in ruby 1.9.2 / ubuntu 11.10.


regards



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