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 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:02:04 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <20031216100204.GH1941@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <001601c3c343$c6a2d090$39fea8c0 AT pkraus> <20031215201959 DOT GA25326 AT redhat DOT com> <3FDE7451 DOT 1B6A3353 AT dessent DOT net> <3FDE82F1 DOT 4090309 AT wilcoxon DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FDE82F1.4090309@wilcoxon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Dec 15 21:58, Elliott Wilcoxon wrote: > NTFS also supports hard links, and there's a program that comes with > Windows that lets you make them (searching WinXP Pro's Help and Support > Center for 'hardlink' gives the relevant entries). The result would > then be that it would work in both Cygwin and Windows (all programs), > although it can be confusing if you're not used to thinking of file > system-y stuff. Hardlinks don't work for directories, only for files. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/