rsync - Feb 2006 - information on identifying hard links to a file

hi,
       Am presently working on rsync and would like to know
       how does rsync identify hardlinks.I have gone through 
       the hlink.c file and have not really understood the 
       flow presented in the function.If anyone can provide 
       some more info on this please inform me.

                                                   thanks
                                                   yogesh
                                                   sp-soft

			
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On Thu 09 Feb 2006, yogesh kulkarni wrote:
>        Am presently working on rsync and would like to know
>        how does rsync identify hardlinks.I have gone through 
>        the hlink.c file and have not really understood the 
>        flow presented in the function.If anyone can provide 
>        some more info on this please inform me.
It does it the same way any application does:

compare inode and device number. When those are the same, the two files
must be hardlinked.


Paul Slootman