Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?

[Wes Peters]

Randell Jesup wrote:
> 
> Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 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.  Either the number is
> 
>         Too bad that the "that's the way it's always been done"/"inodes
> were handed down by God" arguments are so hard to overcome.  1/2 :-)

Perhaps we simply need to expand the size of ino_t and carefully convert
smaller types to it in the stat call?

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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