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Re: Detecting whether two pathes refer to the same file

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Sep 10, 2010 at 09:57 UTC ( [id://859620]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Detecting whether two pathes refer to the same file

Inode numbers don't have any meaning and are always 0 on Windows.

There is an equivalent unique identifier available, (the FileIndexHigh/Low fields in the structure returned by GetFileInformationByHandle(), but you'd need to use Win32::API or Inline::C to get at it.


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