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RE: Minor bug and a question
- To: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>, "'Jim Balter'" <jqb at netcom dot com>
- Subject: RE: Minor bug and a question
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:14:46 +0300
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
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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.
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Sergey Okhapkin
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