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- Subject: Re: Case sensitivity in filenames on Windows
- From: Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:38:14 -0400
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Peter Cawley <lua@corsix.org> wrote:
> Case insensitivity is just one case of a file having multiple names.
> All modern file systems (even on the Windows side) support symbolic
> links, which are another case of multiple names. A general solution
> isn't to compare (normalised) file paths, but compare the underlying
> file numbers. On Linux, this would be comparing inodes.
Be careful here. I-node numbers are unique only within a given
file-system. If your files come from files residing on multiple
partitions or/and mounted over NFS the inode numbers could
potentially clash.
--Leo--
