> Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > - for mount ID's use IDA (from the IDR library) instead of a 32bit > > counter, which could overflow > > IDAs tend to get reused quickly, which can cause race conditions. Any > reason not to just use a 64-bit counter?
They tend to become hard to parse/compare for humans after a while. And all this is basically only for humans, so race conditions don't really matter. Also a changed mount with a reused ID is easily identified by comparing the other fields. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
