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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:19:30 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
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On Apr 21 14:10, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:16:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >> ntea relies on a set of win32 functions available to NT family only.
> > >
> > >Yes, but as I asked -- is that necessary?  I mean, if it will require a
> > >full rewrite of the ntea functionality, then NT is certainly a
> > >prerequisite.
> >
> > I don't get what you are asking when you say "Is that necessary?"   Are
> > you suggesting that someone could emulate NTEA functionality in cygwin
> > on 9x/Me?
> >
> > cgf
> 
> Yes, I'm asking if that's possible (in your and others' educated opinion),
> and if so, how much estimated effort that will involve.  If there's too
> much interdependence with the NT API, then it's probably not a good idea,

Have a look into cygwin's ntea.cc.  It uses the NT Backup API which is
how EA are read or written on NT.  Now try to estimate how long it takes
to implement something similar on 9x.  I don't think it's worth the
effort anyway.


Corinna

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