Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?

[Kelly Yancey]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Wes Peters wrote:

> Kelly Yancey wrote:
> > 
> >   Is there a portable method for determining if the contents of two struct
> > stat's are identical?
> 
> On a single system, if st_dev and st_ino are equal, you must be referring 
> to the same object.  If not, I'd like to hear about it.
> 

  The problem is that I need to be able to determine if the file's
metadata has changed, not necessarily if two paths refer to the same file.
I would use the st_ctime field except that not all file systems implement
it.

  Kelly

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