Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
From: Nicholas Wourms <[email-masked]>
To: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>, Charles Wilson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:29:03 -0700 (PDT)

--- Robert Collins <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Nicholas Wourms" <[email-masked]>
>  >>I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system; 
> > >>gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on
> NTFS.
> > > Why not?  I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this
> limitation?
> > Sure -- figure out a way to implement hardlinks on FAT.
> 
> It's called cross linked files... and checkdisk will 'fix' it :[.
> 

Then the only way to get around that is to emulate hard links, instead of
actually creating a cross-linked file?

Cheers,
Nicholas

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