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 extension to the
standard interface on Linux, 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.
Since commit 6567db65f4 (prior to
1.0.0), the spare slots have been zero-filled, so on all versions that
may be reasonably be encountered in the wild, applications can rely on
a nonzero f_type as indication that the new field has been filled in.
these badly pollute the namespace with macros whenever _GNU_SOURCE is
defined, which is always the case with g++, and especially tends to
interfere with C++ constructs.
as our implementation of these was macro-only, their removal cannot
affect any existing binaries. at the source level, portable software
should be prepared for them not to exist.
for now, they are left in place with explicit _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE.
this provides an easy temporary path for integrators/distributions to
get packages building again right away if they break while working on
a proper, upstreamable fix. the intent is that this be a very
short-term measure and that the macros be removed entirely in the next
release cycle.
building on commit 97d35a552e,
__BYTE_ORDER is now available wherever alltypes.h is included.
endian.h should not be used since, in the future, it will expose
identifiers that are not in the reserved namespace for the headers
which were previously using it.
the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be
obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such
as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX
with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will
inhibit the default.
installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
this is ugly and stupid, but now that the *64 symbol names exist, a
lot of broken GNU software detects them in configure, then either
breaks during build due to missing off64_t definition, or attempts to
compile without function declarations/prototypes. "fixing" it here is
easier than telling everyone to add yet another feature test macro to
their builds.
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Rich Felker