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Re: Can i rely on inode numbers?

Subject: Re: Can i rely on inode numbers?
From: Quinn <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:40:54 +0100

At 15:57 +0200 11/4/08, Lutz Helwing wrote:

So i have to do a recursion over the the whole volume until i find the path? Sounds not very promising imho...

No, you're walking up the chain of parent directories. That's cheap compared to iterating the entire volume.

To just open a file this doesn't matter, does it? I'm only interested in the file, not its path...


Good point.

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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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