Best way to determine if two path reference to same file in Windows?

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Open both files with CreateFile, call GetFileInformationByHandle for both, and compare dwVolumeSerialNumber, nFileIndexLow, nFileIndexHigh. If all three are equal they both point to the same file:

GetFileInformationByHandle function

BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION Structure

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