[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS-info digest, Vol 1 #905 - 4 msgs

[Chuck Boeheim]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:

> The 'right' way of detecting mountpoints without using pioctl() is to use 
> the even-odd rule: Directories in afs have odd inode numbers, while files 
> and symlinks have even inode numbers. Since mountpoints are stored as 
> symlinks, stat'ing one will return a mode of S_ISDIR (like a real 
> directory), and an even inode number (not like a real directory). 

Is this difference in inode numbers somethat that one can depend on?
I.e. is it so basic to the implementation that it's never going to
change, and can be used safely in scripts?

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