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.
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