Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:54:18 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow Message-ID: <20050518185418.GZ18174@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050517090007.762DF6D41F6@calimero.vinschen.de> <4289C0C5.70103@atomice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On May 18 14:41, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems > don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done. > So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'. Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports creating hardlinks on NTFS since... oh, lemme see... 1997. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/