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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert
Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > On a single system, if st_dev and st_ino are equal, you must be
> > referring to the same object. If not, I'd like to hear about it.
>
> This assumption has always caused lots of pain and suffering for
> distributed file system people -- in a distributed file system, the
> requirement that you can generate a unique 32 bit number for each
> file or directory visible in the FS is a fairly arduous one.
I don't dispute that point, but it is worth mentioning that POSIX
specifically guarantees that st_dev and st_ino "taken together
uniquely identify the file within the system." So it is OK for
applications to rely on that.
John
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