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Re: not a nice patch
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:
|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
|>
|> > No, only by fileutils, sh-utils, textutils, make, ... See AC_LFS.
|>
|> I know. But it's only used for printing in `ls'.
Huh? Every stat will fail to give correct output.
|> > No, it's not! The padding had only 16 bits!
|>
|> But with the alignment applied it's 32 bits.
No, it's not.
|> Do you prefer to not make this change?
Do it correctly! You must define a new stat version. Think about it. In
all current programs that use AC_LFS stat will either always get zero in
st_ino (on intel), or receive complete garbage (on m68k).
Andreas.