--- a/src/utils.cc	Fri Feb 16 21:48:21 2007 +0000
+++ b/src/utils.cc	Sat Feb 17 02:51:03 2007 +0000
@@ -113,6 +113,20 @@
   return retval;
 }
 
+// Return TRUE if F and G are both names for the same file.
+
+bool
+same_file (const std::string& f, const std::string& g)
+{
+  std::string c_f = file_ops::canonicalize_file_name (f);
+  std::string c_g = file_ops::canonicalize_file_name (g);
+
+  file_stat f_fs (c_f);
+  file_stat g_fs (c_g);
+
+  return (f_fs.ino () == g_fs.ino () && f_fs.dev () == g_fs.dev ());
+}
+
 int
 almost_match (const std::string& std, const std::string& s, int min_match_len,
 	      int case_sens)