Re: unsigned short for nlink_t

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:50:43 +0100

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On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:24:31PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Currently we have an unsigned short used for the number of hard links to a
> file.
> I have an application which uses 30,000 hard links and I had hoped to scale
> it to more than 64K hard links...
>
> Is there any possibility that this could be changed in future kernels? Or is
> POSIX forcing it to be only a 16bit number?

nlink_t: arithmetic type of an appropriate length

B.2.5 says: the type nlink_t was introduced in place of short in response
to an objection that short was too small.

So, yes, you are right, one more short that has to become int.

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