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Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily |
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Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:20:00 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Ian Jackson <address@hidden> writes:
> This behaviour is expected: if you readdir the directory containing
> a mountpoint, you get the inode number of the directory in the
> underlying filesystem;
That's not the behavior that I expected. Also, it's not useful
behavior--at least, it's not useful for the vast majority of
real-world applications. In contrast, it is useful for 'ls -i' to
print the inode number of the root of the mounted file system, for
'find -inum' to use that inode number, and so forth.
I can understand why readdir might have the behavior that you
describe: it might be more efficient internally. But that doesn't
make it correct, or even "expected". It's a bug in readdir.
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/01
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/01
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, James Youngman, 2006/06/01
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/02
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Paul Eggert, 2006/06/02
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Ian Jackson, 2006/06/03
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, James Youngman, 2006/06/03
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Ian Jackson, 2006/06/03
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/02
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Ian Jackson, 2006/06/05
- Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily, Paul Eggert, 2006/06/05