_invent_inode

Syntax

ino_t
_invent_inode(const char *name, unsigned time_stamp, unsigned long fsize)

Description

This invents an inode number for those files which don't have valid DOS cluster number. These could be:

• devices like `/dev/null' or file system extensions (see section File System Extensions)
• empty files which were not allocated disk space yet
• 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

not ANSI, not POSIX

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