not a nice patch

Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed Feb 10 17:33:00 GMT 1999


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

|> I had to change one more type for 32bit Intel systems: ino64_t.  It used
|> to be 32 bits since this is what I was initially told is enough.
|> Nowadays (which NFSv3, CODA) we need to have 64 bit inode numbers.  Oh
|> well.
|> 
|> Fortunately the type is hardly used directly so far.

No, only by fileutils, sh-utils, textutils, make, ... See AC_LFS.

|>  The only use
|> will be in stat64.  Here we have some padding which I was able to take
|> out so that the struct len is the same.

No, it's not!  The padding had only 16 bits!

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org



More information about the Libc-hacker mailing list