Re: Patch to implement getattr [patch]

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:14:21 +0200


Raul Miller wrote:
> [Not that there is a good solution... on the third hand, I think that
> cpio, etc. should be taught to not trust inode numbers being the same
> if file size and/or timestamp differ. Which maybe is what you were
> getting at.]

But the file size & timestamp of hard linked files can change during a
scan :-)

-- Jamie

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