Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:05:33 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Additional pad in struct stat(64) |
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:12:41PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >>>>> Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > Hi Linus, > > In the last weeks I've done some work on implement real working > > 4.4BSD file flags for Linux. This stuff does almost work. > > (No, I don't want to submit it for 2.4 - don't hit the D key :)) > > Besides some syscalls (chflags, fchflags, lchflags) this needs > > an additional field in struct stat. > > On 32bit architectures this shouldn't be a real problem - > > we have a new struct stat64 and adding a field before Linux 2.4 > > and glibc 2.2 are out shouldn't be a real problem. > > glibc 2.1 and 2.2 use the same struct stat64.
Ok. But glibc seems to ignore additional pad at the end of struct stat (the new st_ino stuff worked, too). For glibc 2.2 there would simply be a new version number for the xstat hack.
Christoph
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