Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:33:54 +0200
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:03:00 +1100
> 
> > Are you saying that the current code does _not_ invent inodes on
> > Windows/XP?  I'd be surprised, I thought we invent inodes for any
> > kind of files on all the versions of Windows except 3.1.
> 
> If the invent_inode is not passed a name then under Windows 2K/XP the inode
> number may change between calls

Right.  But when inode is computed in `stat', we _always_ have a file
name to pass to _invent_inode, right?

So what is the problem with `stat' on XP?  I understand what was the
problem with `fstat', but not the one with `stat'.

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