Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?

[Assar Westerlund]

Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Assar Westerlund wrote:
> > Why can't a file system have more than 2^32 files?
> 
> Because if it does you can't stat it!  There's a great case of circular
> reasoning for you.  ;^)

The other reasoning goes like this: va_fileid should be unique which
means it needs to be large enough to make unique IDs for current
filesystems, which requires it to be longer than `long long' and it's
required to be an integral type, which means we should add `long'^n to
GCC.

/assar


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