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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:20:34 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/umount umount.c 
Message-ID:  <61076.1069226434@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:53:42 GMT." <200311182253.aa25788@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> 

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In message <200311182253.aa25788@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse writes:

>I was planning to return a filesystem ID of {st_dev, 0} to non-root
>users,

Please notice that st_dev is not constant across reboots.

Suggest you hash the real fsid and use the hash instead.

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