[fpc-pascal] fpc in symlinked directory

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Marc Weustink wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:33:38 +0100 (CET)
>>> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> [...]
>>>>>> So ? You just need to check the inode.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a function to list all files pointing to an inode?
>>>> 
>>>> Actually, you just need to know if 2 filenames point to the same inode.
>>> 
>>> And what 2 files should I check? There are thousands of files in
>>> the search path.
>> 
>> To avoid duplicates, only the files that are already open in the IDE
>> must be checked.
>> For the others, it is irrelevant how you opened them.
>> 
>> There are 2 scenarios:
>> 
>> 1. A file with a similar name (filename part matches) is already open in
>> the IDE.
>>     If you collect the inode when opening, there is no problem (I'm
>> guessing you already do a stat on open.
>> 2. No such file is opened:
>>     You can open it using whatever path.
>> 
>> The next time a file must be opened, you check the file at the 'locical'
>> location, and if its inode matches an opened file, you know it is open
>> already.
>
> This will fail if the file is located on some smb or nfs mount.

I know. There are some other cases where it will fail.

After all the tests I did, it seems to me that the easiest solution is to 
resolve the project filename (as FPC does), and work from there.

Michael.