Re: statfs.2: f_spare[4] or f_spare[5]

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On 31 Oct 2014 22:26, Jan Chaloupka wrote:
> there is probably a wrong number in description of statfs structure. In 
> description section, struct statfs contains as a last field f_spare[5]. 
> But the /usr/include/bits/statfs.h itself contains f_spare[4] 
> (glibc-headers-2.18 on f20).
> 
> Looking into glibc-2.20, there is f_spare[6]. Looks like the structure 
> is gradually evolving :).
> 
> Inspecting upstream history (gitk statfs.h), it shows it was f_spare[6] 
> since 1997.

i wonder if we should strip f_spare from the man page.  it's not really useful.

the __SWORD_TYPE should probably be replaced with __fsword_t, and drop the 
__WORDSIZE logic.  that gets ugly with syscall ABIs.
-mike

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