Final Year Project: Using Linux Filesystems Under Windows   Chris Bryden BEng. Electronics and Software Engineering    School of Computer Science   University of Birmingham 28 to  copy  the  file  with  this  inode  number  to  the  destination  path  on  the  DOS filesystem.   If the destination file exists an error is returned to the calling application, but an overwrite can be forced by changing the value of a flag passed to the cp function. 4.4.6  The get inode command This  command  returns  the  inode  of  the  specified  file  or  directory  to  the calling application. It simply calls the get inode function of layer 1 and passes the inode to the calling application. This function is included as this gives the calling application  a  method  of  retrieving  detailed  information  about  a  specific  file  or directory.