From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:29:26 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E4D6DC6.70005@ihs.com> References: <20030207163850.3779.LEKTU@terra.es> <2110-Fri07Feb2003191658+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20030207182150.377E.LEKTU@terra.es> <2593-Fri07Feb2003201921+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3E4A8954.5060606@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045261818 1577 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 22:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18joLU-0000Os-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:30:12 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18joYd-0006mF-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:43:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18joN6-0006TI-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18joMg-00063P-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:31:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18joLn-0004gV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18joKX-0003OG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18joII-00007L-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:26:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18joIH-00007B-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:26:53 +0100 Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11650 Andreas Schwab wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > > |> Even though these files have different contents, sizes, and timestamps, they > |> share the same inode number. > > Do they also share the same device number? Otherwise that looks pretty > much broken, many other utilities probably fail to work properly with such > files. Yes they do share the same device number, and I have seen at least one utility fail -- I think it was diff on OSF1/Digital Unix, which assumed that files with the same inode were identical. I'll try to get some info from Network Appliance. In the meantime, you might be interested in this: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3002.html#I4 -- Kevin Rodgers