i_count too small
utzoo!henry
utzoo!henry
Tue Feb 2 21:48:47 AEST 1982
The i_count field of the in-core inode structure is a char. This is not
necessarily enough on a big system where counts can get large. Damage
potential is considerable. It is difficult to do anything intelligent
about this except enlarge the field to a short (or maybe int); putting
a ceiling on the count just postpones the problem, as was described a
while ago in net.bugs.2bsd. I haven't tried the enlargement yet.
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