On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, wzt.wzt@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > This one may break user space tools that have assumptions about the length > of the field. Or do tools not make that assumption? > User space tools usually use sscanf() to extract this field like: sscanf(buff, "%s %d", name, &num); If %-27s can break some user space tools that have assumptions about the length of the field, the orig %-17s can also break it. The longest name inotify_event_private_data is 26 bytes in 2.6.34-rc2, the tools still can't extract it. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>