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Detect if 2 paths are hard-linked together

If I have 2 Paths for files, both share the same FileStore, how can I verify with Java 17 whether they are pointing to the same file on disk (are hard-linked)? For Unix-like systems there seems at least to be a way to verify whether a file has other hardlinks (get Hard Link Count in Java), but on Windows/NTFS…

Unable to add value to a java generic list

Here’s my sample code: I think I should be able to add integer to items, but compilation fails: Anyone knows what’s wrong here? Answer Let us consider a more complete version of your example: Suppose for the sake of argument that the compiler says that is OK. And now we will create an instance and…