Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:59:40 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t |
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> > > Does the internal reiserfs nlink value translate directly > > > to what stat() puts in st_nlink? > > > It really doesn't matter. Even if you have some huge value that can't > > > be represented in st_nlink, you can report to the user that st_nlink > > > is NLINK_MAX. > > > This is one possible solution to this whole problem. > > And a pretty straightforward one, too. Convert the internal reiserfs > > link stuff to an unsigned short, find NLINK_MAX using the code I posted > > Too bad it is 32bit nlink field in on disk format ;)
Oh! What a confession. :)
> > last night (or maybe simply grab it from userspace includes) and add > > a check to your stat() code to return NLINK_MAX if necessary. > > Ok, I think I will rework it to something sensible, because current code is > somewhat a mess and corrupt correct nlink value on overflows. Hm.
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