Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:50:21 -0700 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: Two identical entries for "rtc" in /proc/devices |
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> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:23:22 -0400 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote: > > > # ls -li > > total 0 > > 4026532007 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 nvram > > 4026532067 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 rtc > > 4026532067 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 rtc > > 4026532056 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 snd-page-alloc > > Next -mm has > > procfs-detect-duplicate-names.patch > procfs-detect-duplicate-names-fix.patch > procfs-detect-duplicate-names-fix-fix-2.patch > > which will at least tell us who the second offender is.
Semes pretty clear that this must be procfs itself... when a filesystem sees a name in a directory, it should refuse to make another file with the same name. And it should *never* reuse inode numbers...
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