[Orca-users] Stopping 'file did exist and is now gone' message(s).

[isaac r.]

Ooops, I was thinking of the 'mv' (which does preserve
the inode ).


--- Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> "isaac r." wrote:
> > 
> > Blair,
> > 
> > Better yet - forget about checking if the filename
> > has changed (i.e. whether it got compressed or
> not).
> > 
> > Simply check if the inode is there. The inode
> stays
> > the same eventhough the filename changes.
> 
> I don't believe there's a way to open a file by
> inode.  You need
> the name and finding the new name won't be easy in
> general.  You
> could check all the files in the directory.
> 
> In any case, the compression programs will create a
> brand new
> file with a new inode.  I just tested it with gzip:
> 
> % ls -li group
>   26585 -rw-r--r--    1 blair    arbz          820
> Nov 23 17:22 group
> % gzip group
> % ls -li group.gz
>   26586 -rw-r--r--    1 blair    arbz          439
> Nov 23 17:22 group.gz
> 
> > 
> > Perl has a system call (escapes my mind which
> one),
> > that shows all the details about a file, including
> > mtime,accesstime,filename, and all the rest of 
> it...
> 
> stat().
> 
> Best,
> Blair
> 
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
> Web and OS performance plots -
http://www.orcaware.com/orca/


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