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Author giampaolo.rodola
Recipients Deniz Bozyigit, eryksun, gary ruben, giampaolo.rodola, paul.moore, r.david.murray, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2019-02-17.11:51:01
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@eryksun

> Using the VSN and file index as if they're the same as POSIX st_dev and st_ino is technically wrong. There is no guarantee that this tuple uniquely identifies a file in Windows.

I agree. FWIW, I faced the same issue on pyftpdlib and ended up not supporting Windows: 
https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib/blob/eef8a5650cd611da1df5fce16974ce90f43f4dc0/pyftpdlib/filesystems.py#L596-L605
It seems to me the problem here is os.path.samefile():
 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/0185f34ddcf07b78feb6ac666fbfd4615d26b028/Lib/genericpath.py#L87-L98

@steve.dower
> For Windows it would be best (though slower) to pass the paths through os._getfinalpathname before comparison.

It seems this is how samefile() was originally implemented but it was changed:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/490b32a3976d84eaf1d6ca8cdcb00eac0ce5055b
https://bugs.python.org/issue11939
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