Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Florin Malita]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

>>Could you explain why stat->st_dev / stat->st_ino POSIX semantics forces
>>POSIX implementations to have a stable stat->st_rdev number? 
>>    
>>
>
>I was never talking about stat->st_rdev 
>  
>
This is blatantly incorrect. You *were* talking about stat->st_rdev:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/10/143

On 2/10/06, *Joerg Schilling* <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to
    POSIX?

    Correct.

    Jörg


You may claim you *never meant to* or you *never realized* you were
talking about, but you can't say you never talked about it - that's an
outright lie.

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fm
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