Re: man 2 stat

[walter harms <wharms-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.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 <marius-PI1xv8u4z2FbJaZ9Qiajs9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> 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
>>
>>
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>> Michael Kerrisk
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> 
> 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
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