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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:25:50 -0500
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fstat, fd_props and inventing inodes [PATCH]
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> Below is a revision of Andrew's patch to make fstat generate
> the same inode for a file irrespective of which file name
> was used to open the file or how many times fstat has been called.
> (Calling fstat multiple times on file descriptor gives different
> inode values each time on Windows '98 SE.)

I am wondering why it is necessary to go to all this trouble. 
Doesn't the directory entry for any FAT system file include a
pointer to the first cluster on that drive, and isn't this unique
and independant of naming tricks?  The addition of 5 bits for
drive identification should make it unique over the file system. 
Am I missing something?

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