linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers

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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:36:55 +0100
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,  Mathieu Desnoyers
 <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,  Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
  LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,  Linux Trace Devel
 <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>,  Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>,  Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,  Ajay
 Kaher <ajay.kaher@...adcom.com>,  Geert Uytterhoeven
 <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,  linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers

On Jan 26 2024, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Note the "might". I don't know why glibc would have special-cased
> st_ino of 0, but I suspect it's some internal oddity in the readdir()
> implementation.

It was traditionally used for deleted entries in a directory.

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