On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:39:12 -0400, "James Vega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Tony Mechelynck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The question is not to determine which other files, if any, are > > hardlinked to a specific file (which might require scanning all > > directories on the whole partition the way some disk integrity checking > > programs do), it is just to determine whether two given pathfilenames > > point to the same disk area (which ought to require only a comparison of > > "where their directory entries point to"). > > Which is simply a subset of my general statement in my previous email. > There is no way to determine this simply from pathnames. In fact, the > only way to determine this, at least under Linux, is to check whether > they have the same inode. I'm not sure how you would do so for other > OSes. The same device number and inode number, to be precise. -- Matthew Winn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
