Chris,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 2.39-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> The documentation of struct stat in stat(2) seems to imply that
> struct stat.st_blocks is in the same units as stat.st_blocksize. However,
> they are not. On my i386 ext3 file system st_blocks in in 512B
> units (e.g., see /usr/include/asm/stat.h:struct stat for i386) and
> st_blksize is equal to 4096.

This report is rather vague.  It would be useful to explain how the
page "seems to imply that struct stat.st_blocks is in the same units
as stat.st_blocksize" and even better if you had some suggestion about
how you think the text should change.

Cheers,

Michael

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