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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:50:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al. In-Reply-To: <20040422071930.GA1486@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <00f001c4270e$5db365c0$66fda287 AT docbill002> <20040421174819 DOT GA27830 AT coe DOT bosbc DOT com> <20040422071930 DOT GA1486 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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 Thanks, that was essentially what I was asking. Looks like I (again) was remiss in my code browsing. Apologies for the noise. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/