From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 20 19:38:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9AA15195 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:38:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11pNpm-0006Vq-00; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:38:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3837692E.3EDEFBF1@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:38:22 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Assar Westerlund Cc: Garance A Drosihn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's? References: <3836DF98.9A84EC44@newsguy.com> <3836F873.D3B989FE@softweyr.com> <5l1z9kn25i.fsf@foo.sics.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Assar Westerlund wrote: > > Garance A Drosihn writes: > > At 12:37 PM -0700 11/20/99, 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. > > Why can't a file system have more than 2^32 files? Because if it does you can't stat it! There's a great case of circular reasoning for you. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message