On 8/25/20, Andrew Nelson wrote:
>
> st_ino is supposed to "uniquely identify the file for a given value of
> st_dev."
That assurance only applies to POSIX systems, not Windows.
st_ino is the file ID in Windows. Some filesystems do not support
reliable file IDs, if any at all. I would only rely
OS: windows 7
Python: 3.8
I am trying to track which files have been modified in a directory on a
network mount. When I call the os.stat function for a given file in
that directory the stat_result.st_ino changes every time I call it:
```
>>> os.stat('U:\data\current\myfile')
os.stat_result(st_mod