Replying to myself: > So the question: was there any reason that the native NTFS file IDs (which > are quite > reasonable) weren't used
Sorry for posting my previous question, it looks like the inode numbers are actually NTFS file IDs for the files. They are reasonably looking when in hex, but decimal representation makes them look scary. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
