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Re: Repost: different files have the same i-node number.
- To: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
- Subject: Re: Repost: different files have the same i-node number.
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 23:32:23 -0400
- Cc: cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <s1sd7z1t2ha.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>
I've noticed that the problem below seems to happen sporadically on
Windows NT on a FAT file system. So, I have added a check for the file
system rather than the OS.
You will be able to see this in a snapshot as soon as we get gcc
working here again so that it can build cygwin. Currently it's
broken, unfortunately.
-chris
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 08:37:21AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>In recent snapshots, different files sometime have the same i-node
>number on Win9x. This is caused by the following code in fhandler.cc.
>
>882: buf->st_ino = local.nFileIndexHigh | local.nFileIndexLow;
>
>This value isn't quiet unique on Win9x, so i-node should be based on
>a hash number like the past snapshots on Win9x.