Re: Filename comparison ... HELP NEEDED!

["Bennett, Chip (KTR) ~U" <BennettC@J64.STRATCOM.AF.MIL>]

In comp.lang.ada you wrote

> Does anybody know of an good solution to seeing if two filenames given
actually
> point at the same file in the file system?  (Probably a solution in C).

You could use stat or lstat to get info about a file that is the same (file
system and inode number) even if the aliases for the file are different.
 Your choice of stat or lstat depends on whether you want symbolic links to
act like "different" files or not.

Also, this can be easily done in Ada using the system interface package
provided with the compiler.  If your compiler doesn't have a UNIX system
interface package (most do), the bindings to stat and lstat and the
conversion of the "C" data structure to Ada is also straight forward.

I agree with another response to this post, that it was inappropriate for
you to splatter the news groups with this question.  However, I think I
saved your good name in THIS group by pointing out the "Ada" aspects.  :-)

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