Gnu ls bug?

2008-06-30, 23:04(-04), Wayne:
I noticed today that ls with "-i" alone doesn't give
correct inode numbers, when the directory is a mount
point! Here's some output showing the problem:
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Could be a Linux bug. With -i alone, ls gets the inode number
from readdir, which if you have , ls does a lstat to get
the type of file (directory, regular) and gets the result
from there.

So with -i alone, you get the inode of the dir entry in the
parent filesystem while with other options that trigger the call
of lstat(2), you get the inode of the mount point.

With the same ls on Solaris 7, I get the same inode numbers in
both cases.

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