From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Aharon Robbins Message-ID: References: <4c38a7b4efba8dd7467ce1e642996f8a@plan9.bell-labs.com>, <018e01c3134f$af81cf50$3f00a8c0@MERCURY> Subject: Re: [9fans] Qid path generation Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:29:25 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f4f2b58-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <018e01c3134f$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 -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins --- Pioneer Consulting Ltd. arnold@skeeve.com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Fax: +1 928 569 9018 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 51 297-545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL