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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>, "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
References: <Message from Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020716182754.02f3df30@pop3.cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020716185624.03113ce8@pop3.cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020716193950.03031af8@pop3.cris.com>
Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:12:52 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>

> >It's not the ln smarts that are needed, its the cygwin1.dll hard link
> >smarts. I'd happily accept a patch to the cygfile:// handler in setup to
> >perform hard links rather thank copies. Of course, the package
maintainers
> >will suddenly all need to build on NTFS as well, and with hardlinks to
boot,
> >before anything changes.
>
> It occurred to me that Cygwin1.dll might be making the copy on FAT file
> systems, but that didn't seem to make much sense, since the "hard link
> fails on FAT" case seems awfully close to the "cross-dev link fails" case
> that a conventional Unix "ln" already has to deal with.

Huh? Cygwin1.dll doesn't make a copy on FAT - it fails as you have just
noted.. Setup.exe's cygfile:// handler makes copies.

Rob


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