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From: David Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Make in-kernel i_nlink field be unsigned int
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:04:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209052104.g85L4A9d002084@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)

Marcelo,
This is a backport of the fix Linus dropped into the 2.5 tree.  Can you
put this into 2.4?

Linus' abstract:
> Make in-kernel inode 'nlink' field be "unsigned int" instead
> of something arch-dependent and usually less.
>
> We may want to do value limiting in generic_fillattr() if people
> end up caring.

Of course, 2.4 doesn't have generic_fillattr.  This would be cp_old_stat
and cp_new_stat.

Thanks,
Shaggy

===== include/linux/fs.h 1.68 vs edited =====
--- 1.68/include/linux/fs.h	Fri Aug 23 08:27:33 2002
+++ edited/include/linux/fs.h	Thu Sep  5 15:33:33 2002
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
 	atomic_t		i_count;
 	kdev_t			i_dev;
 	umode_t			i_mode;
-	nlink_t			i_nlink;
+	unsigned int		i_nlink;
 	uid_t			i_uid;
 	gid_t			i_gid;
 	kdev_t			i_rdev;

                 reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05 20:59 UTC|newest]

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