- <flags> is an arbitrary 16-bit unsigned integer (written out in decimal) that the server stores along with the data and sends back when the item is retrieved. Clients may use this as a bit field to store data-specific information; this field is opaque to the server.
However looking at the source, and testing it out myself, this appears to be a lie. unsigned 32-bit ints appear to be used to store flags with no range checks which means it works just fine if you store 32-bit values in there. afaict the high 16-bits aren't used for anything internally either. Is this right? Is it safe to use values >65535 in the flags field of a key? Being able to stick a 32-bit value in there certainly is rather handy with the rather unusual configuration we are using :)
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