From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T01:54:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Get file by inode number?

On 04/07/06, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> In principle, this is may be a bad idea.  To start with, in *n*x
> filesystems, a file can have lots of different pathnames, via hard
> and soft links.  -Tim

Perhaps that's a good solution to the problem ('to keep
track of them even when they're moved or renamed'): make a hard link.

% echo Hello > foo
% ln foo bar
% cat bar
Hello
% mv foo baz
cat: foo: No such file or directory
% cat bar
Hello
% rm baz
% cat bar
Hello

Paul.