Re: "find" doesn't work

[Ludovic Courtès]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> The inode number is not a reliable unique identifier for a file in the
> system.  It should use the st_ino + st_dev field.  Only both together
> uniquely identify a file.

Actually, it does also use st_dev. But what exactly should be in st_dev?
There's no way for a server to make sure that a certain value for st_dev is
not already in use I think.

> > This means that find may also not work well when searching across various
> > filesystems since different filesystems may very well use the same inode
> > numbers.
> 
> Maybe it tries to figure out "mount points" itself?  It will fail to do so
> on the Hurd.

Yes.

Thanks,
Ludovic.