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From: jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.)
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Subject: Re: Unique file determination
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Date: 10 Aug 90 18:10:04 GMT
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In article <1990Aug9.193919.2996@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes:
>What I want to do is store some type of file indentifier for each file
>so when I get a new file I can create this identified and check it
Mike, how about using the stat() function and concatenating st_dev with
st_ino?  If this doesn't work I have a function I wrote for Lattice C
several years ago that does work.  However, the st_ino value may well change
after a disk reorganization.

--James
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