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. _______________________________________________________ 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