> On 29 May 2017, at 10:42, Fernando Santagata <nando.santag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The three files are already hard-linked, no need for soft links. > > BTW, is there a way to detect hard links in Perl6? > Perl5 "stat" operator returns an array whose fourth element is the number of > hard links of a file, but I don't see anything like that in the Perl6 docs.
Generally, unixisms are not directly supported in Perl 6 in the core. It should be relatively trivial to create an ecosystem module for this using NativeCall directly accessing functionality in libc (which then of course won’t work on Windows). Liz