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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:08:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Dave Korn <dk AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Peter A. Castro
> > Sent: 30 March 2004 19:45
>
> > The original issue was with the executable /usr/bin/zsh being
> > a link to the real exe (eg: zsh-4.2.0).  However, this is not
> > a packaging error, IMHO.  /usr/bin/zsh is a *hardlink*, not a
> > *symlink*,
>
>   Does that even work on 9x/ME series?  I thought hardlinks required NTFS
> support.

True hardlinks do.  Cygwin's "ln" simply copies the file if hardlink
support is not available (e.g., on FAT*).  I believe setup always copies
the hardlinked file (looking at io_stream_cygfile::mklink), but this
functionality is not extensively tested (e.g., zsh is the only binary
tarball with a hardlink in it, AFAIK), so I wouldn't be surprised if
something does go wrong.
	Igor
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