Re: mingw and same-inode

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 9/25/2009 5:59 AM:
> When I see the tentacles of this change reaching so deeply into the core
> of gnulib and coreutils, I have to question whether it is worthwhile
> to accommodate mingw's lack of inode numbers.
> 
> Opinions?

Raise this issue to the mingw list, and see if they can start populating
st_ino in the same way that cygwin does?  Write a gnulib module that fixes
mingw [f]stat to populate a reasonable st_ino?  Inode numbers really are
core to a number of Unix programs, and their absence on mingw is a huge
portability sticking point.  I still plan on respinning this patch to at
least solve some of the easier issues (such as getting the linkat() unit
test to pass successfully), but I'm starting to thing that porting
same_name to mingw is a lost cause unless someone else steps in and helps
write the patches.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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