From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: File inode numbers in Cygwin
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 01:53:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM8PR09MB7095E8C72D21AE3533916064A5F69@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM8PR09MB7095FF7CCFE6FCE6D2406FA5A5F59@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>
Replying to myself:
> So the question: was there any reason that the native NTFS file IDs (which are quite
> reasonable) weren't used
Sorry for posting my previous question, it looks like the inode numbers are actually NTFS file IDs for the files.
They are reasonably looking when in hex, but decimal representation makes them look scary.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI
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2021-08-08 21:31 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
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