Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <3700C8E6.47593F7F@cityweb.de> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:51:50 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernard Dautrevaux CC: "'earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com'" , cygwin users Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT) References: <8135911A809AD211AF6300A02480D175034943 AT IIS000 DOT microdata DOT fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com