Okay, I'm only sharing this little thing because I thought it was funny in cute and kind of sad way. Feel free to move on...
I gave one of the guys I'm working with a sort of "cheat sheet" examining the exported data an imaginary API expects about a week ago. (Yes, it is loosely based on the POSIX "inode" expectations.)
This was basically the information he got:
Today he busted on me while I was eating breakfast looking quite mad and proclaimed "IT CAN'T BE DONE!" at the top of his lungs before stealing a slice of bacon.Code:type (six different types) format (short format references or long format references) packed (true or false) owner id group id size in bytes time the vnode was last accessed time the referenced material was last modified time the vnode itself was last changed [References]
The poor guy has spent the last week trying to pack all of the above (for a 16 bit system), a 32 bit offset, and the necessary references (dependent on the type) into a 128 bit structure. Yea, he thought I said bits instead of bytes.
Soma
