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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:12:33 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Two rm.exe issues on XP
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Hello.

Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > The fact that ftest.exe and ./ftest.exe produce different inodes is a
> > known limitation of fstat on Windows.  I simply know of no way to get
> > at the starting cluster of the file on Windows (there's a special
> > function of Int 21h to get it on Windows, but that function doesn't
> > work on any version of Windows).
> 
> What if we did a truename on the name after a sucessful open, and stored
> that string for the hashing?
[snip]

I think we can already do this. We can get the filename in fstat using the
fd_properties functions. I look at doing that at the weekend.

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]