Re: How to extend struct stat?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:57:22 +0100 (BST)

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> > I have asked around in the kernel hacking circles when I had
> > to choose the values and got told that 32 bits are enough for
> > ino64_t. So live with it.
>
> No. I hope you realize now that it was a mistake to define
> kernel-related things without waiting for the kernel implementation.

Sure and Linus should have used a 64bit off_t when he wrote Linux 0.12.
Hindsight is a wonderous thing.

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