On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:06:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why the hell doesn't that thing just do an "fstat()" on the thing, and > compare the inode number? Not that I would guarantee that it works either > for a socket, but it would seem to make more sense than what it apparently > does now, and I think it should work at least on Linux.
It works on Linux, all right. > (Ie linux will give fake "st_ino" numbers to sockets. Whether anybody else > will do that, I have no friggin clue. And you probably shouldn't depend on > it even under Linux, but damn, despite all of those issues, it's likely > better and more logical than what libnss-ldap apparently does now ;) On FreeBSD it will simply give you zero st_ino on almost all sockets; AF_UNIX ones get st_ino invented (and stable). st_dev is NODEV in all cases... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
