X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:30:59 +0100 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20070501120623.GA3824@tishler.net> <46374055.9080803@byu.net> <20070501142258.GE17841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Christopher Faylor (Tue, 1 May 2007 10:22:58 -0400) > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:59:20PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >* Eric Blake (Tue, 01 May 2007 07:27:49 -0600) > >>According to Thorsten Kampe on 5/1/2007 7:11 AM: > >>>Both things are actually the same under Cygwin (tested on my FAT32 > >>>flash drive and under Windows XP NTFS). > >> > >>True only for FAT and FAT32, which don't support hard links at all. > >> > >>>NTFS supports hard links but these are likely not the same as the Unix > >>>hard links > >> > >>Actually, NTFS hard links are supported, and cygwin uses them > >>(setup.exe, however, currently does not, so making a hard link in a > >>package won't matter, since setup.exe turns it into a copy anyway). > >> > >>>and Cygwin ln does not create the Windows ones. > >> > >>Actually, cygwin ln resorts to whatever cygwin1.dll does in the link() > >>syscall, and in the case of an NTFS drive, this creates an NTFS hard > >>link. > > > >You are right. Unfortunately you cannot "see" hard links in Cmd or 4NT > >"dir" output (while softlinks are displayed as junctions). > > That's incorrect. DIR does display hard links, at least on XP. It displays the file but no information that this is "only" a hard link. With ls you have "-i" to check the inode... Thorsten -- 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/