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In issue1578269, asvetlov suggests adding an implementation of
os.sameopenfile to ntpath.py:
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Jason, as I see you implemented os.samefile (actually ntpath.samefile) 
but os.sameopenfile is still not implemented.
Looks like it's easy to do: while GetFinalPathNameByHandle already 
accept file handle you can use CRT function _get_osfhandle(fd) to 
convert file descriptors (arguments for sameopenfile) to file handles 
and pass it to GetFinalPathNameByHandle.
For me samefile and sameopenfile has very close semantic and I like to 
see both if it's possible.
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This seems entirely reasonable, but I would like to track and tackle
this as a separate issue.

As NTFS supports hard links, I think GetFileInformationByHandle should
be used to compare handles (looking at dwVolumeSerialNumber,
nFileIndexHigh,nFileIndexLow)

That's an excellent idea. I had searched briefly for a more correct solution, but did not find one at the time.

Here's a patch implementing ntpath.sameopenfile with _getfileinformation in Modules/posixmodule.c.
Martin's suggestion is the best way of doing this, which was the basis for _getfileinformation implementation. It returns a tuple of the three relevant fields, and ntpath.sameopenfile compares the results of those tuples for two files and returns the result.

Added in r84561.