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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:22:30 -0500
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject: Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives
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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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