From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 27 12:57:40 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E530B37B479; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA96878; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:57:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:57:22 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200011272057.PAA96878@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c In-Reply-To: <3A22C835.2D84B426@newsguy.com> References: <200011270434.eAR4Y7D45315@mobile.wemm.org> <200011271520.KAA94212@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <3A22C835.2D84B426@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message