From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walter harms Subject: Re: man 2 stat Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:06:45 +0100 Message-ID: <531D8EB5.7090305@bfs.de> References: <20140309202120.GA2447@zeus.siriusdev.com> <20140309202449.GB2447@zeus.siriusdev.com> <20140310100110.GA7155@zeus.siriusdev.com> Reply-To: wharms-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140310100110.GA7155-/zl7Sl5F5BR9OMYREy7PttBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Marius Gaubas Cc: linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Am 10.03.2014 11:01, schrieb Marius Gaubas: > 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). > hello nice to meet you. > 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. Ok, you are talking about the sequence the fields are stored in the structure ? re, wh > 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 -- 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