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_invent_inode
Syntax
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_invent_inode(const char *name, unsigned time_stamp,
unsigned long fsize)
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Description
This invents an inode number for those files which don't have valid DOS
cluster number. These could be:
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devices like `/dev/null' or file system extensions
(see section File System Extensions)
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empty files which were not allocated disk space yet
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or files on networked drives, for which the redirector doesn't bring the
cluster number.
To ensure proper operation of this function, you must call it with a filename
in some canonical form. E.g., with a name returned by truename()
(see section _truename), or that returned by _fixpath() (see section _fixpath).
The point here is that the entire program must abide by these
conventions through its operation, or else you risk getting different inode
numbers for the same file.
Return Value
0 on error, otherwise the invented inode number for the file.
Portability