[TUHS] V7 ls -s option

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Sunday, 25 May 2003 at 16:08:02 +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>> From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr at plan9.bell-labs.com>
>> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
>> Subject: [TUHS] (no subject)
>> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 00:10:30 -0400
>>
>>> The V7 ls(1) man page says that the -s option, which prints total
>>> blocks, includes any indirect blocks.
>>
>>> However, the V7 struct stat didn't have the st_blocks member in the
>>> struct stat, and the code in ls.c uses
>>
>>> 	long
>>>	nblock(size)
>>>	long size;
>>>	{
>>>		return((size+511)>>9);
>>>	}
>>
>>> So, is this just a case of the man page being mistaken?
>>
>> Yes, it looks like a manual bug. Retrieving
>> the true number of indirect blocks isn't possible
>> from the 7th edition stat.  I'm not sure when (or by
>> whom) the st_blocks member was added.
>
> Thanks for confirming this.  In fact, the V7 calculation is only
> an approximation in another sense; a file with large holes could
> generate too large a result.

A block is a block.  If it's allocated, it's all there (at least in
the Seventh Edition).  It doesn't make any difference that some of the
space in the block may not represent valid data.

Greg
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