Re: [fuse-devel] fuse-j bindings - filehandles

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> On a somewhat related note, I found an error on the Wiki.
> http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ   states:
> "The C language guarantees, that an unsigned long will always be able
> to hold a pointer."

Hmm, doesn't it?  I haven't actually looked at the spec.

Linux kernel depends on this in numerous places, which means that for
all sane compilers on all sane architectures this is true.

I admit that chosing unsigned long for the type of a filehandle was a
bit unfortunate, since on the kernel interface it's a 64bit value,
which means that on 32bit archs the top 32bits are not usable.

Miklos