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in reply to Re^4: Any way to determine path being monitored with Win32::ChangeNotify?
in thread Anyway to determine path being monitored with Win32::ChangeNotify?

Thanks for your effort. I remember too that inodes simply does not exists on win. Can that number be something derived from Master File Table? i'm guessing only.
Anyway the number are consistent, more: they are consistent even for hard links, and using stat (maybe next hour inspecting stat.c ;=)..):
>touch test02.txt >C:\SCRIPTS\GnuWin32-bis\bin\ls.exe -il test02.txt 12666373953464529 -rw-rw-rw- 1 lt 0 0 2014-11-13 11:26 test02.txt >C:\SCRIPTS\GnuWin32-bis\bin\ln test02.txt link-to-test02.txt >C:\SCRIPTS\GnuWin32-bis\bin\ls.exe -il test02.txt link-to-test02.txt 12666373953464529 -rw-rw-rw- 2 lt 0 0 2014-11-13 11:26 link-to-test02 +.txt 12666373953464529 -rw-rw-rw- 2 lt 0 0 2014-11-13 11:26 test02.txt >echo Perl > test02.txt >cat test02.txt Perl >cat link-to-test02.txt Perl >C:\SCRIPTS\GnuWin32-bis\bin\ls.exe -il test02.txt link-to-test02.txt 12666373953464529 -rw-rw-rw- 2 lt 0 7 2014-11-13 11:28 link-to-test02 +.txt 12666373953464529 -rw-rw-rw- 2 lt 0 7 2014-11-13 11:28 test02.txt >C:\SCRIPTS\GnuWin32-bis\bin\stat -c "%i %N" test02.txt 12666373953464529 `test02.txt' >C:\SCRIPTS\GnuWin32-bis\bin\stat -c "%i %N\n" link-to-test02.txt 12666373953464529 `link-to-test02.txt'

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UPDATE: they state explicitely here:
st_ino Number of the information node (the inode) for the file (UNIX-specific). On UNIX file systems, the inode describes the file date and time stamps, permissions, and content. When files are hard-linked to one another, they share the same inode. The inode, and therefore st_ino, has no meaning in the FAT, HPFS, or NTFS file systems.

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UPDATE BIS:
C:\Windows\system32>fsutil file queryfileid c:\SCRIPTS\test02.txt ID del file: 0x002d00000016a8d1 C:\Windows\system32>fsutil file queryfilenamebyid c:\ 0x002d00000016a +8d1 Nome collegamento causale al file: \\?\C:\SCRIPTS\test02.txt #0x002d00000016a8d1 hex is equal to 12666373953464529 dec (the same nu +mber as above!!!)

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