https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23153
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #5)
> Hi Pekka,
>
> > No, MinGW populates the st_dev field with some apparently non-random value
>
> In which case I will go with the original patch. I know that technically
> a valid file might have an inode of 0, but I think that in practice this
> will never happen since most file systems do not use inode 0, (at least not
> for ordinary files). Or if they do, it is for a special purpose, such as
> marking that the file has been deleted.
On XFS, inode 0 can be used for regular files created by applications. Only
newer versions have code in them to avoid inode 0. Some old applications have
comments that inode 0 indicates a deleted directory entry, but this appears to
be an invention and not something that has ever occurred in practice.
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