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From: jsulliva@killington.prime.com (Jeff Sullivan)
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Subject: ls -i vs. stat()
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 15 Aug 90 22:12:13 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 308, message 17

I have noticed that 'ls -i' is giving different i-numbers for linked
files, while stat() says that they are the same.  This was noticed on
SunOS 4.0.3.

 The man page for 'ls' says:
     -i   For each file, print the i-number in the  first  column
	  of the report.

 The simple program I that called the stat() system call did this:
            stat(filename,&sbuf);
            printf("\ti-number = %-10d %s\n",sbuf.st_ino,filename);

 Running a simple test:
	$ stattest stat.c
        i-number = 2953       stat.c
	$ ln -s stat.c stat.link
	$ stattest stat.*
	i-number = 2953       stat.c
	i-number = 2953       stat.link
	$ ln -i stat.*
	  2953 stat.c      38379 stat.link

Is this the correct output for the 'ls -i' command?  I would expect all
links to have the same i-number as the original.

  Any help appreciated,

Jeff Sullivan | Computervision/Prime | jsulliva@cvbnet.prime.com
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