-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ben Pfaff on 3/21/2009 6:03 PM: >> On Windows there is no link as on linux. The link file on windows is >> just a regular file with >> the address of the original on it. So I don't know how to test it on windows. > > Windows does support real hard links, although this feature is > not well known. There is information on how to create them under > Windows at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link > as Bruno pointed out earlier.
Or the gnulib link module. But it does not work universally - FAT and other puny file systems don't support hard links, so you have to run your test on NTFS or similar. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknFguYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYD8SgCeO6iwkowuKvVPzn59tXm//v5Q NtwAoIRRxl9rbX/1eQ5e77sA1kLP2lIF =Gi8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
