[plt-scheme] Determine that two paths point to same file?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue May 26 17:10:29 EDT 2009

On May 26, Thomas Chust wrote:
> 
> Probably the best way to determine whether two paths are actually
> aliases for the same file on a POSIX system is to stat them and to
> compare both the device and inode numbers of the results for
> identity.
> 
> However, I don't think PLT Scheme has any builtin procedures to do
> that.

See `port-file-identity' (which Matthew referred to in his reply).

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