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Subject: Re: fstat, fd_props and inventing inodes [PATCH]
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> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:25:50 -0500
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> 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?

Yes, but there's no system call to get that info given just the file
handle (or even the file's name, for that matter).  More accurately,
there is such a system call, but it doesn't work on any Windows system
I've seen.