Re: file names = inodes : why?

[Mark Delany]

At 18:10 16/02/99 -0800, Ari Rubenstein wrote:
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>On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
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>> qmail needs inode numbers to generate unique message numbers.
>
>This has come up a few times here (we are running qmail on a good number
>of machines.)
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>Is the inode just a handy unique number?  Or are there file access
>speed tricks, e.g. opening files directly using inode.

Handy unique filename. Vastly superior to tmpnam() and all the lame 
variants that go with it.

It's not for speed - excepting speed of creating a unique filename.


Regards.