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From: | Geoff Clare |
Subject: | [bug #17877] Invalid "No such file or directory" error on filesystem without stable inode numbers |
Date: | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:57:38 +0000 |
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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. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17877> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
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