Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Andries Brouwer
2004-01-04T22:01:13Z

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:05:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Oh, _I_ always understood. You were the one that was arguing for
> stable numbers as somehow important.

Indeed. I said "preferably stable across reboots".

> I'm just telling you that they aren't stable, and that a
> user application that depends on their stability or
> their uniqueness is BROKEN.

Surprise! Are you leaving POSIX? Or ditching NFS?
Or demanding that NFS servers must never reboot?

A common Unix idiom is testing for the identity
of two files by comparing st_ino and st_dev.
A broken idiom?

No idea what part of our Unix heritage you now have decided to call broken.

Andries