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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:51:50 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
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To: Bernard Dautrevaux <DAUTREVAUX AT microprocess DOT com>
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Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
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Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> If I correctly understand this thread it seems the problem is that under
> cygwin Foo and foo have different inode numbers :-<; why not base the
> inode number for a file to its first sector (or cluster) number? (I know
> this is simple in FAT, its in the directory entry, and it should be
> quite readily available under NTFS also).

It's already solved. Windows administers an i-node like number for every
file, which is accessible via `GetFileInformationByHandle()'. This number
is used in the recent snapshots, to generate the i-node number.

Regards,
Corinna


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