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SubjectRe: [PATCH 29/30] microblaze_mmu_v1: stat.h MMU update
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On Monday 27 April 2009, Michal Simek wrote:
> >       long            st_size;        /* Size of file, in bytes.  */
>
> Maybe unsigned? Make more sense to me that file size is not minus.
> And for some types below.

st_size represents an off_t in user space, which is signed.
Just over half the existing architectures use signed types
for st_size, but for this (like Sam's suggestion for __u64),
I don't think it matters either way.

Arnd <><
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