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To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
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Subject: Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 05 Dec 1999 05:21:37 +0100
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Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> writes:
> 	Sure, depending on what's in a vnode (I haven't looked).

Note that I was comparing the `pointers' and not the contents.  The
way the VFS works you only keep one vnode for every file.

> 	That's what I was thinking of, partially.  It makes binaries
> more transportable, and source if we can get Linux/etc to add it to
> their libraries.

So write patches for Linux as well and get it installed there as well.
Having it in *BSD and Linux is the best you can hope for in a short
time scale.  Getting it into commercial Unixes takes a few more
years...

/assar


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