On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 08:32:27AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:29:03 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 
> > The value we are overwriting is "UNKNOWN", which cannot be acted upon.
> > And we are likely filling in correct information. So I do not see a real
> > downside to overwriting d_type.
> 
> I think writing to d_type is fine.  I was just pointing out the
> portability issues with using d_type without wrapping it in some
> way.

I wasn't aware of that, but d_type has been used by this code since
forever.

naddy, would you still prefer a separate variable? I don't mind.