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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: making GNU ls -i (--inode) work around the linux readdir bug |
Date: | Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:58:34 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Ian Jackson <address@hidden> writes: > _Why_ is it considered a bug ? Is it just that the members of the > relevant committee didn't understand what d_ino was for I don't think that is likely; the folks involved in that discussion list are cognizant of the issues. > Were there any examples of applications that are broken near a > mountpoint with the traditional behaviour but correct with the new > behaviour ? I don't recall specific applications being discussed either way. > Do you have a reference ? Here's one, from me: <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg09524.html> The subject has come up at other times on that mailing list, but with the above URL perhaps you can search the list and track the other instances down.
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