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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:18:15 +0100 (CET)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
To:        Hyong-Youb Kim <hykim@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uniquely identifying a file
Message-ID:  <20020123091619.W86919-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0201221711520.2676-100000@vaud.cs.rice.edu>

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Hyong-Youb Kim wrote:

HK>
HK>What would be a unique id of a file on a local system? Is the full path of
HK>a file the only way to uniquely identify a file? Is there any place I can
HK>get some info on the funtion textvp_fullpath? Thanks.

Posix requires that a file is uniqualy identified by the st_dev, st_ino
pair from struct stat. Under FreeBSD this will be true for local
file systems. Dunno about NFS. See man 2 stat.

harti
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