Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Message-ID: <20020711002903.66899.qmail@web21006.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
To: Robert Collins <robert.collins@syncretize.net>,
   Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
In-Reply-To: <022c01c22868$a6f5c670$2300a8c0@LAPTOP>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii


--- Robert Collins <robert.collins@syncretize.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
> To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms@yahoo.com>
>  >>I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system; 
> > >>gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on
> NTFS.
> > > Why not?  I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this
> limitation?
> > Sure -- figure out a way to implement hardlinks on FAT.
> 
> It's called cross linked files... and checkdisk will 'fix' it :[.
> 

Then the only way to get around that is to emulate hard links, instead of
actually creating a cross-linked file?

Cheers,
Nicholas

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free
http://sbc.yahoo.com

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/