Re: [rfa] remote-fileio.c, remote_fileio_func_fstat, uninitialized st.st_ino.

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Mar  3 10:04, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2011 09:25:32, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > I'm just wondering, can we assume that the stat structure has always an
> > > st_ino member?  THere are checks for st_blocks and st_blksize in place
> > > already.  Is the same required for st_ino?
> > 
> > I think it's fine, at least for now.  The good news is that this
> > field is described in the Open Group's page for this type:
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html
> > So I think we can count on it (although, I don't know enough about C
> > to know how much authority this has)
> > 
> > But, regardless, I think we can leave it be until such day where
> > we actually come across a system where the field actually does not
> > exist... When that happens, we can easily fix the build failure.
> 
> Can't we just memset `st' instead?

That would be the simplest solution.  Afterwards, just set the
non-zero fields.


Corinna

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