Re: stat() and xfs

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

hi,

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:29:50PM -0400, Ron Henry wrote:
> if I do stat("filename", &entry); and I then procede to printf() some of
> the fields of the returned structure, is there a problem with casting the
> elements to int vs something else? for ex should it be
> 
> printf("inode: %d\n", (int)entry.st_ino);  OR
> 
> printf("inode: %lld\n", (long long)entry.st_ino);
> 
> The platform is x86. OS is Linux
> 

The latter is more correct - the first would chop off the top
32 bits (and get the wrong result, should the inode number be
greater than 2^32 - 1).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan