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From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: link() is copying on NTFS
7 Sep 1997 20:28:17 -0700 :
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"'Eric Mills'"
<eric AT osiris DOT com DOT au>
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Eric Mills wrote:
> It appears as if the link() system call is actually copying the file!
> While one has to do that on FAT - NTFS does support multiple names for a
> file. This trivial program:

I'll try to fix it before B19 comes out...

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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