From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-08-04T00:13:04+09:00
Subject: Re: help from *nix ruby users

Hello Ara.T.Howard,

ATH> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, David Ross wrote:

>>
>>
>> The output is from my DragonFlyBSD systems. It is the
>> same in FreeBSD4.x
>>
>>
>>> ruby -r rbconfig -e 'p Config::CONFIG["arch"]'
>> "i386-dragonfly1.1"
>>
>>
>> struct flock {
>>        off_t   l_start;        /* starting offset */
>>        off_t   l_len;          /* len = 0 means until
>> end of file */
>>        pid_t   l_pid;          /* lock owner */
>>        short   l_type;         /* lock type:
>> read/write, etc. */
>>        short   l_whence;       /* type of l_start */
>> };

ATH> wow - they just do it backwards (or linux does) - why can't they all just get
ATH> along ;-(

ATH> thanks - i'll add this one in!

Why don't you write a small C level function with "offset_of" to access the values.
You will always run in problems with different datasizes, different
compiler alignments, different struct's.

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