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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: EMLINK / ELOOP ?
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> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 18:07:04 +0300
> From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
>
> EMLINK -- Too many links.  Not used in DJGPP (as DOS doesn't support
> links).
> 
> I assume that this applies to symbolic links, not hard ones, because
> DOS always supports one hard link to given file.

No, it applies to hard links.  It's true that, technically, the one
name supported by DOS is a link, but I think this interpretation will
be very confusing for most DJGPP users.  "Doesn't support links" may
be technically inaccurate, but it makes sense to the users.

If we want to be pedantically correct, then we will need to talk about
the 8+3 alias that is a hard link in disguise.  We will also need to
mention the fact that `stat' reports st_nlink that is greater than 1
for directories.

I wonder if all that complexity is really needed just to tell that
EMLINK can never happen in DJGPP...