Date:	Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:31:41 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Two rm.exe issues on XP
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:03:21 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> So, it seems consistently broken (ftest.exe and ./ftest.exe should be
> the same ...)

The fact that ftest.exe and ./ftest.exe produce different inodes is a
known limitation of fstat on Windows.  I simply know of no way to get
at the starting cluster of the file on Windows (there's a special
function of Int 21h to get it on Windows, but that function doesn't
work on any version of Windows).

So we have no alternative but hash.

Having different inodes for the same file is bad, but not as bad as
having the same inode for two different files ;-)

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