From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Minor bug and a question 12 Feb 1997 01:47:41 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC18D5.F530AD80.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: Larry Hall , "'Jim Balter'" Original-Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Encoding: 14 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jim Balter wrote: > > send it on to you. However, in reference to the original comment, there > > are facilities in win32 to support hard links. > > Ok, but it is still NTFS-specific, and thus cannot be depended upon > by gnu-win32. Why? Winsup code may create hard links on NTFS partitions and make a copy of file (as it works now) on FAT partitions. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".