Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.5.65-61cc6

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> According to Jim Meyering on 9/7/2009 3:09 AM:
>>>   ls -i now prints consistent inode numbers also for mount points.
>>>   This makes ls -i DIR less efficient on systems with dysfunctional readdir,
>>>   because ls must stat every file in order to obtain a guaranteed-valid
>>>   inode number.  [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
>> On systems with working d_type, is it sufficient to limit the stat() to
>> situations where we know that the entry might be a directory (DT_DIR or
>> DT_UNKNOWN)?  In other words, are we guaranteed that mount points can only
>> occur atop directories, and that we can avoid the stat() for regular files?
> 
> Recently I saw a note in which someone mentioned bind mounts on
> non-directories, so at least in general, that may not be sufficient.
> However, I don't have the reference handy and can't dig right now.

It may have been me:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00321.html
I use bind mounted files on my stateless system here.

cheers,
Pádraig.