Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Here's a WebDAV example:
net use Z: \\live.sysinternals.com\tools
Both st_dev (volume serial number) and st_ino (file number) are 0 for all files
on this drive. _getfinalpathname also fails since WebDAV doesn't support the
default FILE_NAME_NORMALIZED flag (i.e. replace 8.3 short names in the path
with normal names). We need realpath(), which will reasonably handle cases
where _getfinalpathname fails. See issue 14094.
samefile() has to go back into ntpath.py in Windows. The generic implementation
relies on the POSIX guarantee that the tuple (st_dev, st_ino) uniquely
identifies a file, which Windows doesn't provide.
I suggest the following for samefile(). If either st_ino or st_dev is
different, return False. If they're equal and non-zero, return True. Otherwise
compare the final paths. If st_ino is zero, compare the entire paths. If st_ino
is non-zero, then compare only the drives. (This supports the unusual case of
hardlinks on a volume that has no serial number.) The final paths can come from
realpath() if issue 14094 is resolved. For example:
def samefile(fn1, fn2):
"""Test whether two file names reference the same file"""
s1 = os.stat(fn1)
s2 = os.stat(fn2)
if s1.st_ino != s2.st_ino or s1.st_dev != s2.st_dev:
return False
if s1.st_ino and s1.st_dev:
return True
rp1, rp2 = realpath(fn1), realpath(fn2)
if s1.st_ino:
return splitdrive(rp1)[0] == splitdrive(rp2)[0]
return rp1 == rp2
For sameopenfile(), it's trivial to extend _getfinalpathname to support the
argument as a file-descriptor, in which case it simply calls _get_osfhandle to
get the handle instead of opening the file via CreateFileW. This loses the
flexibility of realpath(), but below I propose extending the range of paths
supported by _getfinalpathname.
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Note that the root directory in FAT32 is file number 0. For NTFS, the file
number is never 0. The high word of the 64-bit file reference number is a
sequence number that begins at 1.
For local drives the volume serial number shouldn't be zero. It's possible to
manually change it to zero, but that's intentional mischief. There's a small
chance that two drives have the same serial number, and an even smaller chance
that we get an (st_dev, st_ino) match that's a false positive. I'm not happy
with that, however small the probability, but I don't know a simple way to
address the problem.
For local storage, Windows does have a device number that's similar to POSIX
st_dev. It's actually three numbers -- device type (16-bit), device number
(32-bit), and partition number (32-bit) -- that taken together constitute an
80-bit ID. The problem is that we have to query IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_DEVICE_NUMBER
directly using a handle for the volume device. Getting a handle for the volume
can be expensive since we may be starting from a file handle or have a volume
that's mounted as a filesystem junction. Plus this lacks generality since it's
not implemented by MUP (Multiple UNC Provider, the proxy device for UNC
providers) -- not even for a local SMB share such as "\\localhost\C$".
To improve reliability for corner cases, _getfinalpathname could be extended to
try all path types, with and without normalization. Start with the DOS name.
Next try the GUID name (i.e. a device that supports the mountpoint manager but
isn't auto-mounted as a DOS drive or file-system junction) and finally the NT
name (i.e. a device that doesn't support the mountpoint manager, such as an
ImDisk virtual disk, the named-pipe file system, or mailslot file system). For
an NT path, _getfinalpathname can try to manually resolve a normal mountpoint
via QueryDosDeviceW, but limit this to just drive-letter names and well-known
global names from "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS
Devices" (e.g. PIPE, MAILSLOT). If there's no normal mountpoint, prefix the NT
path with the "\\?\GLOBALROOT" link. For example a file named "\spam" on the
devices "\Device\ImDisk0" (a ramdisk, say it's mounted as R:),
"\Device\NamedPipe", and "\Device\NtOnly" would resolve to "\\?\R:\spam", "\\
?\PIPE\spam", and "\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\NtOnly\spam".
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