Implement /proc/inode/NNN instead...
-- Jamie
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 12:14:12AM -0500, D. Feuer wrote:
> In other words, make all the system calls inode-based except for some kind
> of lookup(filename) to get the inode. Implement filename-based
> functions in libraries. Has a certain pointy elegance, but
> could seriously mess up the transparency of the fs layer, and faces
> either major atomicity issues (if lib based) or ugly functionality
> duplication in
> syscalls (if, as you recommended, new syscalls just added). For example,
> copying a directory to a different disk and mounting it under might mess
> up poorly-written programs that kept track of the inodes. Ouch! Could be
> an administrative nightmare. But the idea is elegent.... Perhaps trouble
> could be avoided by purposely messing up all the inode numbers at mount
> time (seeded from /dev/random).
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