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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
"Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:

> > A particular file on the system must not change st_dev while the system
> > is running.
> >
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html
>
>
> I don't actually see that requirement listed there. It says that st_dev
> must be unique, and that all files are uniquely identified by st_ino and
> st_dev.
>
> There's nothing there that says the mapping cannot change with
> time...just that it has to be unique.

If it changes over the runtime of a program, it is not unique from the
view of that program.

Jörg

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