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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:23:17 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Doing a simple strace shows that all the systems I have regular access to
> use the "getcwd()" system call anyway, which gets this right on /proc (and
> other filesystems that do not guarantee unique inode numbers)

Oh dear -- what of programs that assume duplicate inode numbers are hard
links, and therefore assume the same contents will be found in each
duplicate?

-- Jamie
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