Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17877 (project findutils): POSIX does require a file's inode number to be stable. To see this consider what happens if you stat() a pathname and remember the st_dev and st_ino values, then some time later you stat() the same pathname and observe that the st_ino value is different. POSIX says "The st_ino and st_dev fields taken together uniquely identify the file within the system", therefore st_ino being different means that the pathname now refers to a different file.
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