Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> writes: > If your application deals with uids, I think you're going to end up > with platform-specific code; the complexities around identity are just > too high. That goes doubly for inode numbers, which - why would you > care unless you're a backup app, and then you're *definitely* going to > get into platform specific stuff.
One occasional use of inode (and device) numbers is to test whether two files, that may have different names, are the same. (Maybe GIO provides a portable way to find that out. In a quick look I could not find one.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
