listmount() and statmount()

Posted Nov 12, 2023 12:33 UTC (Sun) by atnot (subscriber, #124910)
In reply to: listmount() and statmount() by Wol
Parent article: listmount() and statmount()

> One problem with big-endian numbers ... if you had little-endian, anybody retrieving a u64 into an i32 would have a rude awakening straight away ...

Did you mean the other way around? Either way it doesn't really matter because unless you got the type definition for the syscall wrong or accidentally did the arcane incantations required to do a bit cast in C, it will just cast it numerically and endianness is irrelevant.