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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 25 Sep 2001 21:02:40 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

     > OK, let me put it that way: we need to turn stat() into method
     > call rather than blind access to inode fields.  Then all these
     > problems will be very easy to deal with.

Yes *please*! Finally we could introduce proper support for 64-bit
inode numbers too!

Cheers,
  Trond