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Article #1841Re: Unique file determination
From: Dugal James P.
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 18:10
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 18:10
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In article <1990Aug9.193919.2996@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: >What I want to do is store some type of file indentifier for each file >so when I get a new file I can create this identified and check it Mike, how about using the stat() function and concatenating st_dev with st_ino? If this doesn't work I have a function I wrote for Lattice C several years ago that does work. However, the st_ino value may well change after a disk reorganization. --James -- -- James Dugal, N5KNX Internet: jpd@usl.edu Associate Director Ham packet: n5knx@k5arh Computing Center US Mail: PO Box 42770 Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Southwestern LA. Tel. 318-231-6417 U.S.A.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!rouge!pc!jpd From: jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Unique file determination Message-ID: <12972@rouge.usl.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 18:10:04 GMT References: <1990Aug9.193919.2996@caen.engin.umich.edu> Sender: anon@rouge.usl.edu Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette Lines: 14 Originator: jpd@pc.usl.edu