On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 19:48, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Oh dear -- what of programs that assume duplicate inode numbers are hard
> > > links, and therefore assume the same contents will be found in each
> > > duplicate?
> >
> > Well, anybody who tries to back up /proc with "tar" is in for some
> > surprises anyway ;)
>
> I was thinking of an over-intelligent `find'. But hey, as long as this
> is only for the weird and wonderful /proc :-)
If they hold both handles open and stat them and find the same inode
number then yes its a bug. We have lots of room for inode numbers to
handle 2^30 processes and allow for 2^30 other files
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