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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] file=? function to compare two files


From: Christian Kellermann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] file=? function to compare two files
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:36:14 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

* John Cowan <address@hidden> [130125 17:33]:
> Michele La Monaca scripsit:
> 
> > I wasn't able to spot this kind of function in the library so I wrote
> > it myself. Not sure if files.scm is the right place for that. Not sure
> > either if inode-numbers equality in Windows is enough to state that
> > two files are actually the same file. Some tuning might be needed,
> > not yet very fluent/knowledgeable in scheme... unfortunately.
> 
> For sure you have to check for equality in st_dev as well as st_ino.
> Even on Posix systems, inode numbers are only unique to a specific device.
> In any case, st_ino is garbage on Windows systems (other than Cygwin).
> 

Or don't make sense on network filesystems...


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