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From: Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com>
To: Kevin Vajk <kvajk@ricochet.net>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] getdents
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:39:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991104023926.H25252@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911031645490.25873-100000@sophia.localdomain>; from Kevin Vajk on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:12:57PM -0800

On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:12:57PM -0800, Kevin Vajk wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > struct hpux_dirent {
> > 	ino_t	d_ino;
> > 	short	d_reclen;
> > 	short	d_namlen;
> > 	char	d_name[1];
> > };
> 
> Shouldn't that be d_name[256]?

It's OK, that's only used as an offset to tell the kernel where to put the
string.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-11-04  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-03  2:11 [parisc-linux] getdents Matthew Wilcox
1999-11-04  1:12 ` Kevin Vajk
1999-11-04  1:29   ` Kevin Vajk
1999-11-04  1:43     ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-11-04  5:52       ` Grant Grundler
1999-11-04  1:39   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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