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Inode numbers don't have any meaning and are always 0 on Windows.

There is an equivalent unique identifier available, (the FileIndexHigh/Low fields in the structure returned by GetFileInformationByHandle(), but you'd need to use Win32::API or Inline::C to get at it.

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