Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:22:42PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > >
> > > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to POSIX?
> > 
> > Correct.
> > 
>
> Chapter and verse, please?  
>
> Can you please list the POSIX standard, section, and line number which
> states that a particular device must always have the same st_rdev
> across reboots, and hot plugs/unplugs?

A particular file on the system must not change st_dev while the system
is running.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html

Jörg

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