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Date: | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:29:48 -0700 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Sally, Gene on 1/22/2007 11:50 AM: > drwxr-xr-x UserName GroupName 0 2007-01-18 16:35:22 test/ > -rw-r--r-- UserName GroupName 9 2007-01-18 16:35:22 test/hardlink > -rw-r--r-- UserName GroupName 0 2007-01-18 16:35:22 test/orig-file link > to test/hardlink > > > Obviously, there's something different, but I can't figure out what that > is. Is anyone aware of some subtle changes in the win API that could > cause this problem? Maybe there some permission settings that could > cause this problem? Could it be that one of your systems uses a FAT32 drive, which does not support hard links? I couldn't reproduce your failure. But speaking of hard links and tar, I find it annoying that setup.exe won't even try to create hard links when a tar file requests them. A good example of this is the git-1.4.4.4-1.tar.gz2 package - it contains 55 hard links to usr/bin/git.exe, but setup.exe unpacks it into 55 separate files, rather than a single file, thus occupying 26 megabytes more hard drive space than strictly necessary on NTFS. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net volunteer cygwin tar maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFtYEs84KuGfSFAYARAiD/AKCETTHtlKJ7Rfx4Gg+33X8ssBlb0wCfdMia zDil6dIF0YzH1DWwMO3SJQA= =VmXD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
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