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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:20:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c 
Message-ID:  <200011271520.KAA94212@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001127004343.36087A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200011270434.eAR4Y7D45315@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001127004343.36087A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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<<On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:52:29 -0500 (EST), Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> said:

> I'd also like to get rid of the current abusive use of device/inode
> number in userland by tools like tar (to detect hard links,
> suffering race conditions among other things)

It's not abusive; it is defined to work that way by POSIX.

-GAWollman



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