ted@nih-csl.UUCP (ted persky) (12/13/89)
Here's a strange occurrence that's happening on several of our machines here. When I issue a stat() call on any directory which happens to be a mount point for a partition (as indicated by 'df'), the inode number that comes back is '2', which is identical to the inode of the root directory. 'ls -di' indicates the same thing. Why doesn't it give you the actual inode of the directory? For instance, a stat() of /usr will return '2' for the inode. Issuing an 'ls -il /' gives you the actual inode number of /usr, which is what I want stat() to do. Sincerely, Ted Persky P.S. E-mail would be appreciated. This is kind of urgent. -- Ted Persky phone: (301) 496-2963 Building 12A, Room 2031 uucp: uunet!nih-csl!ted National Institutes of Health Internet: ted@alw.nih.gov Bethesda, MD 20892
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (12/14/89)
In article <1279@nih-csl.UUCP> ted@nih-csl.UUCP (ted persky) writes: >When I issue a stat() call on any directory which happens to be a mount >point for a partition (as indicated by 'df'), the inode number that comes >back is '2', which is identical to the inode of the root directory. That's what you're supposed to see; it's part of the semantics of mounting. >Issuing an 'ls -il /' gives you the actual inode number of /usr, which is >what I want stat() to do. That's too bad. "ls" merely reports the inumber stored in its directory entry, and that is not altered when a filesystem is mounted on the inode. >P.S. E-mail would be appreciated. This is kind of urgent. It can't be TOO urgent since UNIX has always worked like that.