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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108131609.AA13344@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Link function query
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:09:38 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
In-Reply-To: <8632-Mon13Aug2001171758+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 13, 2001 05:18:00 PM
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> Yes.  The only part that is allowed to be not equal on Windows is the
> st_ino member: Windows doesn't give us enough info to get the full
> path of the file name by its handle (on plain DOS, even st_ino is
> identical).

LFN function 71a6 (info by handle) provides a file number which is
supposedly unique - should we be trying to use this with fstat?

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