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[bug-diffutils] bug#19509: bug#19509: bug#19509: [PATCH] diff: treat fif
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Eric Blake |
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[bug-diffutils] bug#19509: bug#19509: bug#19509: [PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical |
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Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:25:42 -0700 |
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On 02/11/2015 04:37 PM, Ondřej Svoboda wrote:
> I also posed this question to myself -- how can we tell two fifos apart?
> Do they by any chance store e.g. a file descriptor when they are being
> used?
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> I am not aware of any comparison done to fifos but I may as well be wrong.
fstat() will tell you if two fds are the same fifo - their st_dev and
st_ino will be equal.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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