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<<On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:52:29 -0500 (EST), Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> said:

> I'd also like to get rid of the current abusive use of device/inode
> number in userland by tools like tar (to detect hard links,
> suffering race conditions among other things)

It's not abusive; it is defined to work that way by POSIX.

-GAWollman



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