Re: stat signed/unsigned

[Jim Meyering]

Michael Meskes <address@hidden> wrote:
> I just received a bug report against an old stat version but also looked into
> the up-to-date (6.10) one that fixed most of it. However, I wonder whether 
> line
> 550 in stat.c
>
> out_int (pformat, prefix_len, statfsbuf->f_files);
>
> should better be
>
> out_uint (pformat, prefix_len, statfsbuf->f_files);

Hi Michael,

Thanks, but "man statfs" on linux-based systems shows it can be signed:

           struct statfs {
              long    f_type;     /* type of filesystem (see below) */
              long    f_bsize;    /* optimal transfer block size */
              long    f_blocks;   /* total data blocks in file system */
              long    f_bfree;    /* free blocks in fs */
              long    f_bavail;   /* free blocks avail to non-superuser */
              long    f_files;    /* total file nodes in file system */
              long    f_ffree;    /* free file nodes in fs */
              fsid_t  f_fsid;     /* file system id */
              long    f_namelen;  /* maximum length of filenames */
           };

BTW, the latest test release is 7.0
and latest stable is 6.12.