Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:31:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: {PATCH} isofs stuff |
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:38:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > ... > > In fact, almost all filesystems do this at some point. ext2 does it for > > directories too, for some very similar reasons that isofs does. See > > fs/ext2/dir.c: > > > > blk = (filp->f_pos) >> EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb); > > > > (and don't ask me about the extraneous parenthesis. I bet some LISP > > programmer felt alone and decided to make it a bit more homey). > > > > Linus > > Propably some programmer has been bitten once too many times with > C's operator precedence rules, which only affect more complicated > expressions -- and thus are used rarely, and not remembered well.
Come again? Precedence or not, how in hell could anything be stronger than -> or . on the _right_ side? Field names are atoms, you can't have an expression there...
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