Re: File change notification (enhanced dnotify)

[Mike Waychison]

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Rüdiger Klaehn wrote:

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

Mike Waychison
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