Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:06:01 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's? Message-ID: <3836FF29.3D918C08@newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.991118185611.jdp@polstra.com> <3836DF98.9A84EC44@newsguy.com> <3836F873.D3B989FE@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > It's not broken in this case. 2^16 (st_dev) is certainly enough to uniquely > indentify all mounted filesystems, and 2^32 is (by definition) enough to > uniquely indentify each of the files on a filesystem. Discussions (with > strong, valid reasons) about expanding the size of ino_t should be carried > out on -arch. Well, the whole argument was preceeded by a disclaimer that the "by definition" of inode depended on... the very concept of inode, which is not universal. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony, since there'd been a pronounced shortage of them in his own life; however, nothing but peace and harmony, forever and forever? He wasn't sure about that. And no beer? Very dubious proposition." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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