Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:19:06 +0100 From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Definition of struct stat st_size for directories Message-ID: <YgkvesuwegqERLw0@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> In-Reply-To: <YgczTldqDaKNUwEp@raf.org> References: <YgczTldqDaKNUwEp@raf.org>
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raf: > The FreeBSD stat(2) manpage only defines st_size for > regular files and symlinks. But I've noticed that for > directories, it seems to always be the number of > entries within the directory (including . and ..). I'm > seeing this with 13.0-RELEASE and zfs. Here on UFS it's some multiple of 512, e.g. $ stat -f '%N %z' / ~ / 1024 /home/naddy 3584 -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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