Equality of attributes of two files

[Alan Bateman]

Mark Thornton wrote:
> I'm not sure that you would often want to compare ALL attributes. Last 
> access time and perhaps link count are two that you would normally not 
> want included in the comparison.
>
Right, and another one that wouldn't make sense to include is the file 
key, if available, as that identifies the file (so two different files 
couldn't have equal keys).

-Alan.