Re: [RFC] procfs has run out of inode numbers

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:30:58 +1200


On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:14:46PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:

AFAICS we can either
* hash all entries in proc, and use iunique.
* return duplicate inode numbers. It only affects the /proc/<pid> part
of procfs, but perhaps some apps rely on unique inode numbers.

(3) Hope it's not an issue until we get 64-bit inodes (we will need
these sooner or later anyhow).

--cw

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