Re: struct fanotify_event_metadata

Tvrtko Ursulin
2010-08-19T15:44:34Z

On Saturday 14 Aug 2010 18:44:38 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The pid field of struct fanotify_event_metadata has 64 bits which looks
> excessive. Wouldn't it make sense to make it 32 bits and swap it with
> the mask field? That would avoid the unaligned mask field, and remove
> the need for the packed attribute.

No one seems to have picked up on this what I thought was an obvious good
idea.

So yes, 32-bit PID makes sense I think. If that was changed, would removing
the packed attribute get us anything more? If not it may stay for extra safety
if/when new fields are added.

Also, would it make sense to move mask in front of fd so 32-bit pid can stay
at the end? I think mask logically should be higher because is the more meta
data, while pid is auxiliary.

Tvrtko

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