Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <3857DC83.EC5D4D8E@veritas.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:22:59 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Oliveira da Costa CC: Cygwin Subject: Re: fileutils 4.0 References: <005001bf4725$80fd7700$8400000a@costa.cadenet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob McGowan [mailto:Robert.McGowan@veritas.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 3:49 PM > > To: Andre Oliveira da Costa > > Subject: Re: fileutils 4.0 > > Hi Bob, > > > Are you using a FAT or an NTFS file system for the build? FAT does not > > support hard links. As I understand it, Cygwin simply copies the file > > to the new name. So any test looking for a hard link count might fail. > > Otherwise, I have no other ideas. > > I'm using NTFS only, no FAT partitions. Are hardlinks supported on NTFS? > (couldn't find anything on the FAQ -- any of the cygwin-gurus reading this > thread?). If not, then the tests are indeed supposed to fail. > > Again, thanks for the help. > > Regards, > > Andre Andre, I just did a quick check on NTFS vs. FAT and hard links. It verified something I heard/read somewhere, that NTFS does support hard links. On the FAT partition I have, a hard link does in fact create a copy. So it looks like hard link based tests, run in the NTFS formatted area, should work. For the moment, I'm out of ideas. I'll get back to you if I come up with any other ideas. Meanwhile, using the 20.1 tools sounds like the safest bet for the short term. Bob > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com