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Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.5.65-61cc6


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.5.65-61cc6
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:23:18 -0600
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According to Andreas Schwab on 9/7/2009 5:17 AM:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> In other words, are we guaranteed that mount points can only occur
>> atop directories, and that we can avoid the stat() for regular files?
> 
> You can also (bind-)mount regular files.

In other words, d_type is unreliable, just like d_ino.  Yuck.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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