Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:01:38 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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>> > > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to POSIX?
>> > Correct.
>A particular file on the system must not change st_dev while the system
>is running.
>

Attention, I asked for st_rdev (=major/minor as presented in ls -l),
not st_dev (major/minor of the disk /dev is on).


Jan Engelhardt
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