Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/04/20/14:31:07
If you do this, remember that it shouldn't be limited to FAT file systems.
Even though one's version of Windows may be capable of making hard links,
one may not have the permission level (Administrator) to do so.
But I'm not sure that I see the point of emulating hard links. It seems to
me that you are just making a second type of symbolic link. Is there
anything that the emulated hard link could do that the ordinary symbolic
link cannot? (Sorry if this is a question with an obvious answer. I
haven't had more than fleeting access to a system that would allow me to
make hard links since 1988).
-----Original Message-----
From: A. Alper Atici
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:52 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RFI: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
Hello,
I've been pondering over the prospects of emulating hard links for
some time. List archives don't show much about it, and I have not come
across any similar open implementation on the net.
My rudimentary idea of emulating hard links is based on employing a
new type of windows shortcut which will be regarded as a hardlinking
file, rather than a symlink, by Cygwin. For this, I hope to figure out
a possible combination in the magic bitvector byte(word?) in shortcut
header. Any comments? How about 0x1c?
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A. Alper Atici OpenPGP KeyID: 0xB824F550
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