From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Qid path generation
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 21:09:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <120186b3c4fc9941866283410ea990b1@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c38a7b4efba8dd7467ce1e642996f8a@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>
> I think there might be better ways to get a unique identifier
> out of Windows these days. U9fs, for example, uses the inode
> number and device number. Maybe Windows will let you get at
> similar information now.
>
I've been using a hash of the full windows path name and the
creation time as the qid. It has the advantage of working
both for NTFS and FAT file systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-05 21:29 Andrew Simmons
2003-05-05 21:30 ` W. Josephson
2003-05-05 21:33 ` rsc
2003-05-05 21:45 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-05-06 11:29 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-05-06 1:09 ` David Presotto [this message]
2003-05-06 1:10 ` David Presotto
2003-05-06 1:23 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-05-06 2:29 ` David Presotto
2003-05-06 3:05 ` Russ Cox
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