Bug#498307: manpages-dev: Poor stat(2) wording implies incorrect units for struct stat.st_blocks

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Frost
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Bug#498307: manpages-dev: Poor stat(2) wording implies incorrect units for struct stat.st_blocks

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Frost
Or if st_blocks is always in units of 512 B, this may be more clear: st_blocks; /* number of 512 B blocks allocated */ -- Chris Frost | http://www.frostnet.net/chris/ -+ PGP: http://www.frostnet.net/chris/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#498307: manpages-dev: Poor stat(2) wording implies incorrect units for struct stat.st_blocks

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Frost
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