I think open by handle will turn out to be useful, but in discussing various "duplicate inode number" checks that we are having to add to cifs, it reminded me that we probably need a "generation number" or some equivalent (birth time is probably good enough as well) to be able to tell the case where a file is deleted and new file is created reusing the same inode number (eventually Samba needs to return this to posix clients if inode numbers are to be useful - and I don't know how to tell Samba how to get birth time or generation numbers out of stat in userspace) -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
