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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:36:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t 
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

PK>In message <p05101539b8b186d47384@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes:
PK>
PK>>So if I want to compare
PK>>     /afs/rpi.edu/campus/lang/ruby/1.6/README
PK>>to
PK>>    ~drosehn/private/myruby/README
PK>>then the stat call has to have the same st_dev for both of
PK>>those files.
PK>
PK>I'm missing something here, unless README is a device, st_dev
PK>has no meaning, no ?

Because the two READMEs are the same file, the st_dev's (and st_ino's) of
them must be the same.

harti
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