Jakko Pastuchio wrote:
do you know of any example of code that access files by their inode numbers ?
NFS The NFS clients use (superblock, inode number) to keep track of open files, and can keep accessing the same file across a reboot of the server. This means the inode numbers have to be stable on the kernel side. -- Who do you trust? The people with all the right answers? Or the people with the right questions? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/