Op 25-10-17 om 14:40 schreef Stephane Chazelas:
> The behaviour of df on symlinks is unspecified AFAICT
Hmmm...
Base Definitions, 3.381 Symbolic Link:
| A type of file with the property that when the file is encountered
| during pathname resolution, a string stored by the file is used to
| modify
2017-10-25 12:01:04 +0200, Martijn Dekker:
[...]
> > I'm not sure what the output of "LC_ALL=C df -P" should be for a
> > mount point like a UTF-8 /home/stéphane
>
> That's a good point. I had actually added LC_ALL=C to my 'df'
> invocation, more out of habit than anything. I should remove it.
I'
2017-10-25 11:17:56 +0200, Martijn Dekker:
[...]
> I'd like to be able to do something like:
>
> if is onsamefs "$file1" "$file2"; then
> ln "$file2" "$file1"# hard links are possible
Should probably be:
ln -f -- "$file2" "$file1"
--
Stephane
2017-10-25 10:11:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre:
> On 2017-10-24 21:11:45 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Nick Stoughton wrote:
> > > > If you are correct, this is a Linux kernel bug.
> > >
> > > Why? The stat command is not standardized. The --file-system argument
> > > changes the output of %i to s
Date:Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:17:56 +0200
From:Martijn Dekker
Message-ID:
| if is onsamefs "$file1" "$file2"; then
| ln "$file2" "$file1"# hard links are possible
| else
| ln -s "$file2" "$file1"
| fi
That's just creating a race condition. Much be
Op 24-10-17 om 11:22 schreef Stephane Chazelas:
> using sed on the output of df
> #
>
> the output "df -P" is only specified in the POSIX locale.
That's now how I read the spec at
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/df.html#tag_20_33_10
It says
Op 23-10-17 om 17:36 schreef Vincent Lefevre:
> The initial question was actually not clear. First, you should define
> what a file system is. If this is not what is identified by st_dev[*],
> what is it?
That's a good point. What I mean is an instance of a file system on a
particular device or pa
Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:01:23 +0200
From:Martijn Dekker
Message-ID: <4d781f3b-085c-d2ca-1912-b08410266...@inlv.org>
| Is there a way, using POSIX shell and utilities, to reliably test if two
| files are on the same file system?
I have been ignoring this question
On 2017-10-24 21:11:45 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Nick Stoughton wrote:
> > > If you are correct, this is a Linux kernel bug.
> >
> > Why? The stat command is not standardized. The --file-system argument
> > changes the output of %i to something other than the inode ... no bug.
>
> Whether i
