On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:00:04PM +0200, M. Gerards wrote: > > The ext2 file system uses little-endian order, whereas htons etc. convert > > from > > native to network (big-endian) byte-order. So using htons would give you > > exactly the wrong result. (Actually, I didn't even think of using htons, > > since > > I looked at the Linux code for ext2fs and copied the le**_to_cpu functions > > from > > there.) > > htons if used to convert from network order to host order. There are also > reverse functions.
But on a big endian machine those functions do nothing (because network and host order is the same). You can't use the htons functions here. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
