Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:04:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: Finding hardlinks |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>>> High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your >>> computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode >>> numbers ;) >> >> Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be >> unimpressed with a decrease in reliability. > > With the suggested samefile() interface you'd get a failure with just > about 100% reliability for any application which needs to compare a > more than a few files. The fact is open files are _very_ expensive, > no wonder they are limited in various ways. > > What should 'tar' do when it runs out of open files, while searching > for hardlinks? Should it just give up? Then the samefile() interface > would be _less_ reliable than the st_ino one by a significant margin.
You could do samefile() for paths --- as for races --- it doesn't matter in this scenario, it is no more racy than stat or lstat.
Mikulas
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