From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Minor bug and a question
12 Feb 1997 01:47:41 -0800
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Jim Balter wrote:
> > send it on to you.  However, in reference to the original comment, there
> > are facilities in win32 to support hard links.
> 
> Ok, but it is still NTFS-specific, and thus cannot be depended upon
> by gnu-win32.

Why? Winsup code may create hard links on NTFS partitions and make a copy of file (as it works now) on FAT partitions.

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Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
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