Follow-up Comment #5, bug #17877 (project findutils): BTW, POSIX isn't all that clear about inode numbers. Take this example:
touch x rm x mkfifo y Is x and y the same file? Obviously not. Can they have the same inode number? Yes, filesystems do reuse inode numbers. So is st_ino a unique identifier for a file within a filesystem? Yes, but only at a given instant. Of course you may know that a file has not been deleted by holding a reference to it (file descriptor or cwd). Otherwise inode numbers are hints at best. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17877> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils