On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The inode number is not a reliable unique identifier for a file in the > system. It should use the st_ino + st_dev field. Only both together > uniquely identify a file.
Actually, it does also use st_dev. But what exactly should be in st_dev? There's no way for a server to make sure that a certain value for st_dev is not already in use I think. > > This means that find may also not work well when searching across various > > filesystems since different filesystems may very well use the same inode > > numbers. > > Maybe it tries to figure out "mount points" itself? It will fail to do so > on the Hurd. Yes. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
