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Date:      05 Dec 1999 05:21:37 +0100
From:      Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
To:        Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?
Message-ID:  <5l1z92m2zy.fsf@foo.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: Randell Jesup's message of "04 Dec 1999 23:12:54 -0500"
References:  <ybu4se3lomv.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <3845712D.F4D51A70@softweyr.com> <v04210100b46cd2f23ff6@[128.113.24.47]> <5lwvqu7as2.fsf@foo.sics.se> <ybuk8muh1mw.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <5laenqz34x.fsf@foo.sics.se> <ybubt86gh4p.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>

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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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