Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Obviously stable file >> serial numbers are implementable. They just aren't easily >> implementable if one chooses the wrong implementation strategy. > > How would you implement them for FAT filesystem?
I wouldn't. FAT is not a good implementation strategy for POSIX-compatible file systems. >> For light duty applications like "cp foo bar", "cp" should work >> just fine. > > It won't if they randomly happen to have the same inode. Sure, but that's unlikely. So it's good enough for light duty applications, where correctness isn't that big an issue. > What really scares me is that this posix-requirements are getting > tighter and tighter This comes about largely because the correctness and performance constraints on coreutils are getting tighter and tighter. This is a good thing for users, but it does mean that coreutils implementers must work harder, and can't settle for the low-quality approaches that were good enough back in the days of OS/2. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
