On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:06:45AM +0100, walter harms wrote: > > > Am 10.03.2014 11:01, schrieb Marius Gaubas: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:56:16AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Marius Gaubas <marius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 08:21:20PM +0000, Marius Gaubas wrote: > >>>> 1. nlink_t st_nlink member goes after mode_t st_mode, not before @struct stat > >>> Apologies, the correct statement is: > >>> > >>> nlink_t st_nlink member is before mode_t st_mode, not after @struct stat > >> > >> "I'm sorry HAL, what are are you trying to tell me?" > >> > >> Translation: Could you _please_ communicate as though there are human > >> beings on this list? What are you trying to tell us, and what is your > >> evidence? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Michael Kerrisk > >> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > >> Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ > > > > Hello Michael, > > > > Please accept my apologies for a BOT-like e-mail. > > > > My name is Marius Gaubas > > (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marius-gaubas/5b/63b/3a4). > > > hello nice to meet you. > > > The evicence is very clear. I invoke syscall:stat directly from assembly > > code and in the debugger I clearly see see that st_nlink (==2) goes > > before st_mode (==040700). It clearly makes sense: 8 8 4 8 is not > > aligned. The series reflects the sizes of the first for structure > > members. st_nlink/st_mode values are clearly specific to my test, I hope > > that's clear. > > Ok, > you are talking about the sequence the fields are stored in the structure ? > > re, > wh > > > Kind regards, > > Marius > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Yes, st_mode and st_nlink are in a reverse order. Very simple to test from C with offsetof macro. I can quickly write it if it is needed for the prove. M. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
