Re: making GNU ls -i (--inode) work around the linux readdir bug

[Jim Meyering]

Phillip Susi <address@hidden> wrote:
> The new POSIX standard verbiage you
> pointed out only _hints_ that that it is incorrect behavior, with no
> justification for that position.

>From what I've read, POSIX does not specify this.
If you know of wording that is more precise, please post a quote.

As far as I've heard, only one application would be affected
adversely by this change (extra stat calls would hurt performance),
and that application, "magicmirror" is not widely used -- since I
found no reference to it in the first few pages of search results.

If you know of other applications that run "ls -i" and depend on
the post-coreutils-6.0 behavior of not stat'ing some files,
please let me know.