Re: [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races

Alexander Viro
2001-08-07T19:20:59Z

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Yes, I use libc5. And I don't care about old pwd being slower. And I

So fix getcwd(3) in libc5. BFD... Or use your ->dentry in devfs_readdir() -
then you can get the consistency you want for existing inodes and that
will allow b0rken getcwd() to work.

It _is_ b0rken - it relies on unique 32-bit number for inodes. That's
not guaranteed on NFS and there's nothing we could do about that.