From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Gaubas Subject: Re: man 2 stat Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:01:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20140310100110.GA7155@zeus.siriusdev.com> References: <20140309202120.GA2447@zeus.siriusdev.com> <20140309202449.GB2447@zeus.siriusdev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:56:16AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Marius Gaubas wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 08:21:20PM +0000, Marius Gaubas wrote: > >> 1. nlink_t st_nlink member goes after mode_t st_mode, not before @struct stat > > Apologies, the correct statement is: > > > > nlink_t st_nlink member is before mode_t st_mode, not after @struct stat > > "I'm sorry HAL, what are are you trying to tell me?" > > Translation: Could you _please_ communicate as though there are human > beings on this list? What are you trying to tell us, and what is your > evidence? > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ Hello Michael, Please accept my apologies for a BOT-like e-mail. My name is Marius Gaubas (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marius-gaubas/5b/63b/3a4). The evicence is very clear. I invoke syscall:stat directly from assembly code and in the debugger I clearly see see that st_nlink (==2) goes before st_mode (==040700). It clearly makes sense: 8 8 4 8 is not aligned. The series reflects the sizes of the first for structure members. st_nlink/st_mode values are clearly specific to my test, I hope that's clear. Kind regards, Marius -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html