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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:08:08 -0600
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sam wrote:

> 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.

well it confused me too in v9fs but once I saw what was going on it
actually makes a kind of sense to me.

ron