linux-kernel - Re: Finding hardlinks

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:43:58 +0100
From:	Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, bhalevy@...asas.com,
	arjan@...radead.org, mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	jaharkes@...cmu.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, nfsv4@...f.org
Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:42, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I guess that is the way to go. samefile(path1, path2) is unfortunately
> inherently racy.

Not a problem in practice. You don't expect cp -a
to reliably copy a tree which something else is modifying
at the same time.

Thus we assume that the tree we operate on is not modified.
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vda
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