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> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:46:52 +0000
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> We could modify stat to use _invent_inode for directories, so that it
> generates the same inode every time it is called for the directory. We would
> use _invent_inode, because we cannot rely on the current method (on Win2k/XP)
> to return the same inode each time.

Are you saying that the current code does _not_ invent inodes on
Windows/XP?  I'd be surprised, I thought we invent inodes for any
kind of files on all the versions of Windows except 3.1.

> To ensure that we get the same inode, we
> would also have to ensure that we pass the same filename to _invent_inode. So
> the directory's filename would need to be fixed using _truename.

I thought `stat' already calls _truename and the result is passed to
_invent_inode, isn't that true?