Hi, Hard links in cygwin are emulated by the less-than-ideal method of simply copying the file, ie:
stauff@BEEFCAKE ~/ctest $ touch bog.txt stauff@BEEFCAKE ~/ctest $ ln bog.txt blah.txt stauff@BEEFCAKE ~/ctest $ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 stauff None 0 Jun 6 09:26 blah.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 stauff None 0 Jun 6 09:26 bog.txt stauff@BEEFCAKE ~/ctest $ echo "text" > bog.txt stauff@BEEFCAKE ~/ctest $ ls -l total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 stauff None 0 Jun 6 09:26 blah.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 stauff None 5 Jun 6 09:26 bog.txt stauff@BEEFCAKE ~/ctest $ This breaks compatibility with some programs which require the hard-link continuity, but works on FAT based drives which don't support hard links. Cheers, Matthew Duggan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreo...@yahoo.fr> To: <jim.geo...@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: "saned" <sane-de...@mostang.com> Sent: Thursday, 6 June 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin > > Sylvain, > > > > could you explain this a little further for me > > please? > > > > Jim > > > No problem. Links don't exist in Windows. > Why ? Because M$ wants to make dos/console mode > disappear. > > There are only shortcuts, stored as name.lnk, that > contain : > - an icon (or path to the icon) > - a path to the target > - a comment. > > So the use of cygwin to simulate a link is : > - empty icon (this would be meaningless) > - empty path (this is not convenient as it is in > C:\blah\blah\filename format) > - store the unix path in the comment > -> possible because any text can be stored in that > place. don't remember how much the string can be long. > > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! > Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >
