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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 & Aliases
Message-ID: <1430@intercon.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 18:44:02 GMT
References: <3948@internal.Apple.COM> <561@pyuxf.UUCP>
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Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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In article <561@pyuxf.UUCP>, asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) writes:
> WHAT DO YOU THINK AN INODE IS, PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!

So, like, what system call do you use to open a file by inode number
under UNIX?  I must have missed it sometime in the past 8 years...

The only way to do it is by doing a tree walk of the entire file system,
which is a much worse idea than maintaining a parallel directory structure.
If you don't think so, try it.  On a large file-server-size filesystem.

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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