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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lgustavo@codesourcery.com, petr.hluzin@gmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org,        macro@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: Unreliable BFD caching heuristic
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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:54:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <83a9gh46qz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 04 Dec	2013 05:47:32 +0200")
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

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

Eli> I don't understand: if you want to use inode numbers on Posix systems,
Eli> which requires a Unix-specific call, then why not use
Eli> GetFileInformationByHandle, which gives the Windows equivalent of the
Eli> inode?  IOW, if you can have _real_ inodes on Windows, why risk the
Eli> fake ones?

FWIW it seems fine to me as well.
I'm sure one of our several existing portability mechanisms is suitable
for this task.

Tom