From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:21:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D577DFF.5010309@corvil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1029148667.16424.144.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 09:56, Padraig Brady wrote:
>
>>Anyone care to clarify which filesystems don't
>>have unique inode numbers. I always thought you
>>could uniquely identify any file using a device,inode
>>tuple? Fair enough proc is "special" but can/should
>>you not assume unique inodes within all other filesystems?
>
>
> 2.4 functions correctly here in all the stuff I've looked at.
cool.
> I can't speak for 2.5. In the 2.4 case you must be holding the files open
> during the comparison. Some file systems like MSDOS invent inodes as
> they go, never issuing the same one to two objects at the same time but
> happily reissuing different inode numbers the next time around.
Sure, no hardlinks so who cares what the number is, as long
as it's unique.
> That breaks NFS but not much else
hmm..
thanks,
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-12 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 21:43 [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid() Hubertus Franke
2002-08-08 22:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-08 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-08 23:09 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-09 3:26 ` Chris Adams
2002-08-09 7:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-09 8:48 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-09 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-09 9:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-09 10:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-09 13:00 ` Chris Adams
2002-08-09 14:39 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-09 13:59 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-09 14:57 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-08 22:34 ` Paul Larson
2002-08-08 22:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 22:37 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-09 1:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-09 19:34 ` Paul Larson
2002-08-09 20:13 ` Paul Larson
2002-08-09 20:40 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-09 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-09 21:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-09 21:46 ` Paul Larson
2002-08-09 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 17:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-10 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 18:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-11 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-11 19:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-11 21:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-11 20:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-12 8:56 ` Padraig Brady
2002-08-12 10:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 9:21 ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2002-08-12 14:40 ` Paul Larson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-12 16:15 Jim Houston
2002-08-09 0:53 Hubertus Franke
2002-08-08 21:50 Hubertus Franke
2002-08-08 18:56 Hubertus Franke
2002-08-08 19:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:18 ` Paul Larson
2002-08-07 22:03 Paul Larson
2002-08-07 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-08 0:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-08 19:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-08 20:47 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-08 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-08 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-08 21:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-09 4:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
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