On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:59:20PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Eric Blake (Tue, 01 May 2007 07:27:49 -0600) >>According to Thorsten Kampe on 5/1/2007 7:11 AM: >>>Both things are actually the same under Cygwin (tested on my FAT32 >>>flash drive and under Windows XP NTFS). >> >>True only for FAT and FAT32, which don't support hard links at all. >> >>>NTFS supports hard links but these are likely not the same as the Unix >>>hard links >> >>Actually, NTFS hard links are supported, and cygwin uses them >>(setup.exe, however, currently does not, so making a hard link in a >>package won't matter, since setup.exe turns it into a copy anyway). >> >>>and Cygwin ln does not create the Windows ones. >> >>Actually, cygwin ln resorts to whatever cygwin1.dll does in the link() >>syscall, and in the case of an NTFS drive, this creates an NTFS hard >>link. > >You are right. Unfortunately you cannot "see" hard links in Cmd or 4NT >"dir" output (while softlinks are displayed as junctions).
That's incorrect. DIR does display hard links, at least on XP. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
