>> Is there anyway of reliably determining from st_dev whether the
>> device is local or not?
> I was under the impresstion that st_dev was `undefined' for non-local
> filesystems ...

That can hardly be; otherwise there is _no_ way to reliably check
whether two files are the same.  The traditional way of comparing the
<st_dev,st_ino> pairs is useless if st_dev is undefined for nonlocal
filesystems.  And unlike the many other traditional ways that have been
broken by "modern" systems, there would be no substitute.

					der Mouse

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