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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 -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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