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Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:54:47 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How do you fstat an open directory?
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On Mar 22 21:30, Mark Blackburn wrote:
> mark AT althor ~
> $ ./testcase.exe
> inode of d:17489383932880356520
> 
> mark AT althor ~
> $ ls -id d
> 3659174697343209 d/
[...]
> Notice that the inodes don't match from ls -id and from my test program. 
> Am I doing something wrong?

No, it's a bug in Cygwin's fstat implementation which happens to go
wrong for directories.  Thanks for catching this.

Corinna

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