Re: [Condor-devel] same_file util function?

[Colin Stolley <stolley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I want to use it for recursively handling LOCAL_CONFIG_FILE, and to
> use it to avoid cycles. I'd rather check to see if they're the same file
> instead of doing a strcmp (or stricmp) on the filename, since that's not
> particularly great. 
>
> On unix I'd probably just look at the file and check it's device and 
> inode number, which is probably Good Enough(tm), but I have no idea what
> I'd do on Win32.
>  
I'd hazard a guess that you could get the UNC paths and volume serial 
numbers and compare those. I may be forgetting some corner cases that 
Matt already thought of though.

See GetFileInformationByHandle() and WNetGetUniversalName() if you want.

Colin