From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Qid path generation
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:29:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <newscache$9hpgeh$2d$1@lnews.actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <018e01c3134f$af81cf50$3f00a8c0@MERCURY>
In article <018e01c3134f$af81cf50$3f00a8c0@MERCURY>,
Andrew Simmons <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>> I think there might be better ways to get a unique identifier
>> out of Windows these days.
>
>You'd think so, but I'm buggered if I can find them. I'll keep looking.
>Thanks.
There is some low-level windows function, something like _realpath() that
takes a filename and returns the full path to the file; this is guaranteed
to be unique. I don't know if that helps any.
Arnold
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 11:29 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 [this message]
2003-05-06 1:09 ` David Presotto
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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