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Re: Unreliable BFD caching heuristic
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: lgustavo at codesourcery dot com, petr dot hluzin at gmail dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org, macro at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:53:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: Unreliable BFD caching heuristic
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Luis> Thanks, but i don't think we would like to have windows-specific calls
Luis> in such a generic portion of code.
Eli> I don't understand: if you want to use inode numbers on Posix systems,
Eli> which requires a Unix-specific call, then why not use
Eli> GetFileInformationByHandle, which gives the Windows equivalent of the
Eli> inode? IOW, if you can have _real_ inodes on Windows, why risk the
Eli> fake ones?
FWIW it seems fine to me as well.
I'm sure one of our several existing portability mechanisms is suitable
for this task.
Tom