Le 13/01/2026 à 13:28, Thomas Weißschuh a écrit :
Switching the types will make some later changes cleaner. size_t is also the semantically correct type for this field. As both 'size_t' and 'unsigned int' are always the same size, this should be risk-free.
Are you sure ?Some architectures have size_t as 'unsigned int', some have 'unsigned long', some have 'unsigned long long'
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/posix_types.h#L16 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/posix_types.h#L35 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/posix_types.h#L26 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h#L68 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h#L72 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/posix_types.h#L23 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/posix_types_x32.h#L15 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h#L16 Christophe
