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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:50:26 -0600
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Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> Yes, *any* program that looks at inode numbers to determine if two files
> are the same.

No, only those that need to specially handle the case where you refer to
the same file with two different capitalizations.

> 
> 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

No, the problem is that they now have the same inode number.
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