Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:18:00 +0300
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:06:35 +1000
> 
> The problem appears to be with the st_dev info. I need to check all the rest
> of the info to see if there are any other differences.
> 
> Let me re-phrase my question:
>     Should I be able to compare the results from stat() against fstat()?

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).