Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives

[Volker Quetschke <quetschke at scytek dot de>]

Hi!

Sorry, I just have to ask this, see below.

> > > > So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour?
> > >
> > > Yes, it's by design.  The answer is "don't use DOS paths".
> >
> > It's nice to be mean, isn't it?
>
> How about some clarification: "Don't use DOS paths if you want
> consistent i-nodes?"
>
> You're welcome to use DOS paths if you want.  You just can't expect
> UNIX-style behavior from them.
Did you read that mail to the end? It contained a full analysis
of the problem and even a patch. It is just a small unconsistency
that is easily fixable, I didn't fully check if my changing of
isslash() does some harm, if it does the inode problem is
still fixable. Again, see my ananlysis.

Would you in principle preject a patch that fixes the inode
behaviour on non NTFS drives?

Volker

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