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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:56:57 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG?] Signedness of __kernel_nlink_t on Sparc?
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:21:09 -0500
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:

> In include/asm-sparc/types.h, __kernel_nlink_t is signed, whereas on 
> all the
> other architectures it is unsigned.  Is this intentional, or a bug?

Intentional, in order to match SunOS.  Unfortunately this is pretty
much unchangable.