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On 12/03/2013 09:33 PM, Petr Hluzín wrote:
>
> On 3 December 2013 16:27, Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com
> <mailto:lgustavo@codesourcery.com>> wrote:
>  > I did an experiment with using the inode number in the cache check.
> It seems
>  > to work for the hosts that support that information. On Windows i
> think we
>  > fake inode numbers based on the file name and timestamp, so it could be a
>  > simpler solution.
>  >
>  > Luis
>
> On Windows you can use GetFileInformationByHandle() function, see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364952.aspx

Thanks, but i don't think we would like to have windows-specific calls 
in such a generic portion of code.