RE: File inode numbers in Cygwin

2021-08-08 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Replying to myself: > So the question: was there any reason that the native NTFS file IDs (which > are quite > reasonable) weren't used Sorry for posting my previous question, it looks like the inode numbers are actually NTFS file IDs for the files. They are reasonably looking when in hex, but

File inode numbers in Cygwin

2021-08-08 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Hi all, I have a question that might have been asked on here before, but I wasn't able to find it, so here it goes: In Cygwin, it seems like for the local native file system (NTFS), file inode numbers (struct stat::st_ino) get generated by hashing the file names, rather than them being tied to