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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers
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On Jan 26 2024, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Note the "might". I don't know why glibc would have special-cased
> st_ino of 0, but I suspect it's some internal oddity in the readdir()
> implementation.

It was traditionally used for deleted entries in a directory.

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