Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:04:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's? Message-ID: <3845712D.F4D51A70@softweyr.com> References: <ybu4se3lomv.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>
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Randell Jesup wrote:
>
> Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> 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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