From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T22:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: File::stat(any).ino => 0 [WAS] Re: Help me clean up this method

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> so, just to re-state the bug: File::stat(anypath).ino is always zero under the
>> one click installer, but not under cygwin using the default or compiling by
>> hand.
>
> Generally speaking, File.stat on Windows is not reliable.  Too many of that
> Stat members are either meaningless or wrong.  Revamping it is on my TODO
> list for the win32-file package.

thanks daniel, some searching lead me to suspect this.  seems like a severe
limitation since 'ino' is the only way to determine if a file is unique -
bummer.  reading over the source leads me to think that the issue is simply a
casting bug - but that the information should be there for ruby (in the
inode).  does this sound correct?

cheers.

-a
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