On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That is all systems. All UN*X systems since the dawn of time have
> > behaved this way.
>
> Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right.
Er, are you programming for Unix or not?
> Being fast and inac
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> When files are only in a single filesystem the inum is sufficient to
> uniquely identify a file. But when we consider more than one
> filesystem, the inum and device are needed together because inums on
> different filesystems are unrelated and may be (of
