[perl-python] a program to delete duplicate files

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:24:59 +0100, rumours say that Patrick Useldinger
<pu.news.001 at gmail.com> might have written:

>> Have you found any way to test if two files on NTFS are hard linked without
>> opening them first to get a file handle?
>
>No. And even then, I wouldn't know how to find out.

MSDN is our friend for Windows stuff.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createhardlink.asp

and then

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/getfileinformationbyhandle.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/by_handle_file_information_str.asp

The relevant parts from this last page:

st_dev <-> dwVolumeSerialNumber

st_ino <-> (nFileIndexHigh, nFileIndexLow)
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I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...