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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>,
   "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:38:43 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>; "Charles Wilson"
<cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?



> Then the only way to get around that is to emulate hard links, instead of
> actually creating a cross-linked file?

Which will require (at a minimum) a file system mid level driver - like a
virus scanning package does - to ensure that separate processes write to the
same file.

Rob


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