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

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

Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net> wrote:

> However, I don't think this is a reasonable interpretation, and it's
> clearly _not_ the one that Joerg is implying.
>
> Joerg is claiming that the quoted sentence also implies that
> _different_ st_ino/st_dev pairs will _always_ identify different
> files.  Taken in just the immediate context of stat.h, this is a
> very reasonable interpretation.

Correct, as a st_ino/st_dev pair uniquely identifies a file, the reverse
needs to be true in addition.

Jörg

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