17 Mar
2004
17 Mar
'04
1:22 a.m.
Given though that as the filesystem library is now, this visitor algorithm would require platform-specific implementations, thus making the function somewhat of a black box, it perhaps makes sense to wait until there is link count and symbolic link support in the main library before adding this visitor algorithm. As far as the filesystems on which inodes are not unique, I believe it is primarily only a problem on network filesystems like AFS and Coda FS, in which the inode numbers are only valid for files which are cached locally or a to which a handle is open, because the files are actually identified by a 128-bit identifier which is not exposed (completely) by the (Linux) kernel. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard