Re: [BUG?] Signedness of __kernel_nlink_t on Sparc?

From: David S. Miller
Date: Sun Mar 13 2005 - 20:59:40 EST


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:21:09 -0500
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> In include/asm-sparc/types.h, __kernel_nlink_t is signed, whereas on
> all the
> other architectures it is unsigned. Is this intentional, or a bug?

Intentional, in order to match SunOS. Unfortunately this is pretty
much unchangable.
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