Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 06:11:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c Message-ID: <3A22CDF3.CE4F0548@newsguy.com> References: <200011270434.eAR4Y7D45315@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001127004343.36087A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200011271520.KAA94212@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <3A22C835.2D84B426@newsguy.com> <200011272057.PAA96878@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<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. These file systems being all popular distributed file systems in use and research, and all distributed file systems we are ever going to see in widespread use. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@united.bsdconspiracy.net "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but at least you haven't done anything stupid yet." "I've hardly had time, sir." "There's a naive statement." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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