Re: Inode Operations

2003-08-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: +> I'm working on some archiving programs and need to (for various +> reasons) keep track of a very large number of files so that I +> can revisit them at the end of the operation. For example, +> on extract, I need to set directory acc

Re: Inode Operations

2003-08-24 Thread David Schultz
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Right now, I'm storing the full pathname of each such > file, but that is taking up a lot of memory, so I'm looking > for a more compact approach. It occurred to me that > the device number/inode (as returned by stat(2)) is another > way to uniquely iden

Inode Operations

2003-08-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
I'm working on some archiving programs and need to (for various reasons) keep track of a very large number of files so that I can revisit them at the end of the operation. For example, on extract, I need to set directory access times and permissions after the complete extract is finished, which re