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From: fp@dionysos.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Frank Pilhofer)
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Subject: Re: Filename comparison ... HELP NEEDED!
Date: 2 Dec 1994 15:14:12 GMT
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In <3bn13h$jmo@speedy.cci.de> jewell@cci.de (Nigel Jewell) writes:
>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).

 A stat() on any file will give you a device id and an inode. These values
can be used to identify a file. If you stat() both files, and both the device
id and the inode are equal, then you have the same file. Only, this does not
work with linked files (but with symlinks).

	Frank

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