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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:04:24 -0400
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I'm having some trouble rationalizing the extra
two byte size as documented in stat(5) BUGS.  I
see how having size[2] as part of the stat layout
helps in parsing multiple directory entries
end-to-end in a read(5).  Where I'm stuck is
why it's more consistent to add another one.

If the argument were, ``while we could elide
the size[2] field from the stat layout because
the length of the remainder of the message is known,
we leave it in for consistency with directory reads''
I would understand.

What am I missing here?

Sam