Re: ISO-9660 Rock Ridge gives different links different inums

[Horst von Brand <brand _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Chubb <peter _at_ chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

[...]

> The problem is that in Unix the fundamental identity of a file is
> the tuple (blkdev, inum); names are merely indices (links) that resolve to
> that tuple.   Personally, I'd swap to a pair of system calls to map
> name to (blkdev, inum), and open(blkdev, inum).  Think of the inode
> number as a unique within-filesystem index.

That way any joker can go ahead and open any file, without any regard to
permission bits on the directories that lead there. Not nice.
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