Follow-up Comment #9, bug #17877 (project findutils):
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What the patch does is to release the inode as
> soon as there are no more references to it.
Sorry, but that's going to break lots of code.
It's not just gnulib; it's lots of other uses as well. For
example, some shell scripts use "ls -i" to get a file's
inode number N, and "find -xdev ... -inum N" to find all
hard links to the same file.
Perhaps POSIX isn't clear enough on the subject, but the
intent was always that a file always retains the same inode
number, even if it's renamed or linked.
If some Linux-based file systems can't provide stable inode
numbers, they should be fixed so that they do. It shouldn't
be that hard.
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