lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives
Volker Quetschke
quetschke@scytek.de
Thu Mar 25 00:34:00 GMT 2004
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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