On 07/24/2011 09:06 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> What about a few POSIX-violating fringe operating systems (Windows and
> DJGPP come to mind)?:) For Windows we can write our own stat
> function in cygwin, but for DJGPP I think we're in a bad situation...
AFAIK, DJGPP is not relevant these days.
What Windows environment are you worried about?
All. Microsoft documentation says that st_ino is zero for "FAT, HPFS,
or NTFS file systems".
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/14h5k7ff%28v=VS.100%29.aspx
However, we could fix that in gnulib.
Paolo