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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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