Re: same-inode.h and OpenVMS

2011-12-31 Thread Paul Eggert
OK, thanks, I installed the gnulib patch. I also installed the following gnulib documentation change to try to get all this stuff written down better. doc: cover st_ino issues once; add OpenVMS etc. * doc/posix-functions/stat.texi (stat): * doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi (lstat): * doc/posix-func

Re: same-inode.h and OpenVMS

2011-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > On OpenVMS st_ino is an array of three ino_t values, so grep's > a.st_ino == b.st_ino compares *pointers*, and yields 0. Ouch. > > For other GNU programs we often don't worry about OpenVMS, > but grep is a special case, as it's actually used on OpenVMS >

same-inode.h and OpenVMS

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Eggert
On OpenVMS st_ino is an array of three ino_t values, so grep's a.st_ino == b.st_ino compares *pointers*, and yields 0. Ouch. For other GNU programs we often don't worry about OpenVMS, but grep is a special case, as it's actually used on OpenVMS and