Re: udev and devfs - The final word
From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 17:02:44 EST
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:05:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Oh, _I_ always understood. You were the one that was arguing for
> stable numbers as somehow important.
Indeed. I said "preferably stable across reboots".
> I'm just telling you that they aren't stable, and that a
> user application that depends on their stability or
> their uniqueness is BROKEN.
Surprise! Are you leaving POSIX? Or ditching NFS?
Or demanding that NFS servers must never reboot?
A common Unix idiom is testing for the identity
of two files by comparing st_ino and st_dev.
A broken idiom?
No idea what part of our Unix heritage you now have decided to call broken.
Andries
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