Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <022c01c22868$a6f5c670$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Charles Wilson" , "Nicholas Wourms" Cc: References: <20020710212523 DOT 32658 DOT qmail AT web21003 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <3D2CB62D DOT 8090100 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin? Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:22:25 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" To: "Nicholas Wourms" >>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 :[. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/