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SubjectRe: File change notification (enhanced dnotify)
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Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM> said:
> Rüdiger Klaehn wrote:
> | My original approach assumed that inode numbers were unique, and it
> | would have worked with hard links. But I think it is much more important
> | to have a mechanism that works for all file systems than to solve the
> | problem of hard links.

> Inode numbers are guaranteed to be unique on a given filesystem other
> than for hard links.. Where is this assumption broken otherwise?

On some non-Unix filesystems there isn't an equivalent to (invariant) inode
numbers.
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