From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: b19,20: ln -d  - hard links .. ?
5 Nov 1998 13:50:01 -0800
Message-ID: <19981104193930.6154.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@findmail.com>
References: <3.0.3.16.19981103025522.1c5f5728@exmachina.net>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com

Win32 doesn't do hard links!  Remember you're not on UNIX your only emulating it and there will be things nearly impossible and this will be one of them.


I'm really not sure the syntax is totally correct, but I have difficulty
> with this aspect.
> Vis:
> 
> $ mount
> Device           Directory           Type        Flags
> D:               /var                native      text=binary
> C:               /                   native      text=binary
> $ ln /var/temp /tmp
> ln: /var/temp: hard link not allowed for directory
> $ ln /cygnus /tmp
> ln: /cygnus: hard link not allowed for directory
> $ ln -d /var/temp /tmp
> ln: cannot create hard link `/tmp' to `/var/temp': Permission denied
> $ ln -F /var/temp /tmp
> ln: cannot create hard link `/tmp' to `/var/temp': Permission denied
> 
> This'll have to do..
> $ mount -b D:\\temp /tmp
> 
> $ ls / | grep tmp
> $
> 
> John. 
> 
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