From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: b19,20: ln -d - hard links .. ? 10 Nov 1998 07:38:46 -0800 Message-ID: <19981109154751.04208.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <3.0.3.16.19981103025522.1c5f5728@exmachina.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Earnie Boyd Cc: 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. Hard links *are* supported by Cygwin on NTFS partitions for files. However, Cygwin does not support hard links to directories. Under Windows 95, hard linking a file just results in a file copy. -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".