Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/06/06/13:46:12
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > EMLINK -- Too many links. Not used in DJGPP (as DOS doesn't support
> > links).
> >
> > I assume that this applies to symbolic links, not hard ones, because
> > DOS always supports one hard link to given file.
>
> No, it applies to hard links. It's true that, technically, the one
> name supported by DOS is a link, but I think this interpretation will
> be very confusing for most DJGPP users. "Doesn't support links" may
> be technically inaccurate, but it makes sense to the users.
>
> If we want to be pedantically correct, then we will need to talk about
> the 8+3 alias that is a hard link in disguise. We will also need to
> mention the fact that `stat' reports st_nlink that is greater than 1
> for directories.
>
> I wonder if all that complexity is really needed just to tell that
> EMLINK can never happen in DJGPP...
OK, but maybe just changing "Doesn't support links" to "Doesn't support
hard links" would clarify it without increasing pedanticism?
Laurynas
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