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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:54:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On May 18 14:41, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies.  Windows file systems 
> don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done.  
> So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'.

Huh?  NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports
creating hardlinks on NTFS since... oh,  lemme see... 1997.


Corinna

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