Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:52:44 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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"Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
> > A particular file on the system must not change st_dev while the system > > is running. > > > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html > > > I don't actually see that requirement listed there. It says that st_dev > must be unique, and that all files are uniquely identified by st_ino and > st_dev. > > There's nothing there that says the mapping cannot change with > time...just that it has to be unique.
If it changes over the runtime of a program, it is not unique from the view of that program.
Jörg
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