From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-09-23T08:38:35+09:00
Subject: Re: File::stat(any).ino => 0 [WAS] Re: Help me clean up this method

Hi,

At Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:01:39 +0900,
Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:157179]:
> thanks for that!  any idea how to tell if a file is unique on that file system
> then?  eg, given a filename and it's stat - how can you show that it is not
> some other file?  nothing but File::expand_path(pathname)?

eban has suggested File.identical? for that purpose.

-- 
Nobu Nakada