Re: Windows same_file macro not reliable/usable when using Visual Stdudio

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/23/2017 08:24 AM, Kees Dekker wrote:
> I really like
> to know what is wanted here?

As I recall, my suggestion was along the lines of changing Gnulib to 
behave the way you like, and/or changing some Gnulib-using GNU 
application (I forget which you were interested in) to use Gnulib to 
test whether two files are the same. That is, whatever fix is needed, it 
should be done for all Gnulib-using programs, not just for the app in 
question. My guess is that you're interested in the Gnulib 'same' and/or 
'same-inode' modules, or something like that. But since I don't know 
exactly what you're looking for and I don't use MS-Windows, it's hard 
for me to say precisely what patches you should propose.