Hello Alejandro,
Am Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 04:28:12PM +0100 schrieb Alejandro Colomar:
> 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?
I'm not a programmer. But I thought the term was null? If this is not
the case, then disregard my proposal.
Greetings
Helge
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