Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The real issue is that starting cluster won't work at all for empty > files. IOW, ftruncate() would change st_ino; no-go for all kinds of > obvious reasons. Now, one _could_ play games with separating inode > numbers of directories and non-directories, but that causes too much > PITA. What we have is a guaranteed "st_ino doesn't change for the > lifetime of in-core inode", without any promise of persistence beyond > that. Since way back - at least '99, IIRC.
Here (in gnulib's fts.c), inodes are only ever compared for directories, so treating directories specially would help. While FAT may not be worth even a small PITA, some other types of file systems with similar limitations might be, e.g., FUSE-based ones. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
