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SubjectRe: inode values in file system driver
Andreas Schwab writes:
> Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl> writes:
>
> |> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:18:20PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> |> > Am I allowed to assign the value 0 to an inode in a file system driver? I seem
> |> > to be having problems with a file that is being assigned this inode value
> |> > (its a FAT based filesystem so the inode values are totally artificial).
> |>
> |> Yes, you are. However, glibc thinks that inode 0 is special and won't
> |> show it.
>
> BS. This has nothing at all to do with glibc.

from glibc-2.2.4/sysdeps/unix/readdir.c:

/* Skip deleted files. */
} while (dp->d_ino == 0);

In other words, readdir(3) will not return dirent for inode with ino 0.

>
> Andreas.
>

Nikita.
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