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: <20020711002903.66899.qmail@web21006.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:29:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin? To: Robert Collins , Charles Wilson Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <022c01c22868$a6f5c670$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Robert Collins wrote: > > ----- 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 :[. > Then the only way to get around that is to emulate hard links, instead of actually creating a cross-linked file? Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- 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/