On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:24:59 +0100, rumours say that Patrick Useldinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>> Have you found any way to test if two files on NTFS are hard linked without >> opening them first to get a file handle? > >No. And even then, I wouldn't know how to find out. MSDN is our friend for Windows stuff. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createhardlink.asp and then http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/getfileinformationbyhandle.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/by_handle_file_information_str.asp The relevant parts from this last page: st_dev <-> dwVolumeSerialNumber st_ino <-> (nFileIndexHigh, nFileIndexLow) -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
