From 92861d93cdad13834f4d8f39504b550a80ad8200 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: наб Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 22:23:36 +0200 Subject: linux: statvfs: allocate spare for f_type MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is the only missing part in struct statvfs. The LSB calls [f]statfs() deprecated, and its weird types are definitely off-putting. However, its use is required to get f_type. Instead, allocate one of the six spares to f_type, copied directly from struct statfs. This then becomes a small glibc extension to the standard interface on Linux and the Hurd, instead of two different interfaces, one of which is quite odd due to being an ABI type, and there no longer is any reason to use statfs(). The underlying kernel type is a mess, but all architectures agree on u32 (or more) for the ABI, and all filesystem magicks are 32-bit integers. We don't lose any generality by using u32, and by doing so we both make the API consistent with the Hurd, and allow C++ switch(f_type) { case RAMFS_MAGIC: ...; } Also fix tst-statvfs so that it actually fails; as it stood, all it did was return 0 always. Test statfs()' and statvfs()' f_types are the same. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/f54kudgblgk643u32tb6at4cd3kkzha6hslahv24szs4raroaz@ogivjbfdaqtb/t/#u Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella --- NEWS | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 22875d5fa4..97379002f3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ Version 2.39 Major new features: - [Add new features here] +* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member; + on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name, + and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero + in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: -- cgit 1.4.1