From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ubi: tmp hack for lstat
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:21:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224494471.4466.90.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081020091100.GA1324@www.tglx.de>
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:11 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I'm actually not sure what the expected behavior is. stat() returns
> information about a file and ubi isn't a regular file it is a character
> node. So it would be probably better to leave everything as it and
> change userspace instead.
In my understanding, stat() should return how many bytes of data inode
contains. Stat on a character device should return amount of bytes the
character device inode contain. In ext3 major/minor are stored as
meta-data, so it returns 0.
Yes, I also think it is better if you amend your user-space application.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 13:21 [RFC] ubi: tmp hack for lstat Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-20 5:13 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-10-20 9:11 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-20 9:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2008-10-20 12:57 ` Peter Korsgaard
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