Hi Helge,
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 02:02:10PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
>
> Issue: Zero padding byte → null padding byte?
>
> msgid ""
> "struct linux_dirent {\n"
> " unsigned long d_ino; /* Inode number */\n"
> " unsigned long d_off; /* Offset to next I<linux_dirent> */\n"
> " unsigned short d_reclen; /* Length of this I<linux_dirent> */\n"
> " char d_name[]; /* Filename (null-terminated) */\n"
> " /* length is actually (d_reclen - 2 -\n"
> " offsetof(struct linux_dirent, d_name)) */\n"
> " /*\n"
> " char pad; // Zero padding byte\n"
Both seem good to me. Why not zero?
Cheers,
Alex
> " char d_type; // File type (only since Linux\n"
> " // 2.6.4); offset is (d_reclen - 1)\n"
> " */\n"
> "}\n"
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