Thread: Is there's a number in windows like inode in linux?

hi guys,

anyone know that the ntfs's file sytem struct? is there's a API or something other could let get this number? Or there is actually no such number in windows like inode in linux??

any suggestion could be ok! thks!

NTFS stores a unique 8-byte reference number for each file. It's available on Vista+ by enumerating the directory files with GetFileInformationByHandleEx(<directoryHandle>, FileBothDirectoryInfo, ...) till it returns the file you're interested in, and otherwise since NT4 by NtQueryInformationFile(<fileHandle>, ..., FileInternalInformation);