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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:57:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c
Message-ID:  <200011272057.PAA96878@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A22C835.2D84B426@newsguy.com>
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<<On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 05:46:45 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> said:

> POSIX doesn't match reality in this respect. Any application which
> follows POSIX here is broken in Real Life.

I think you'd have a hard time convincing most people of that.  Being
able to recognize files on the basis of their (device, inode) pairs is
fundamental to UNIX going all the way back.  (There is no requirement
that the device and inode actually have those particular meanings, or
are persistent across mounts; under NFS they do not and are not.)
Any file system which does not provide for this behavior is broken in
real life.

-GAWollman

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