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Re: fix for rename function on Mingw
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Eric Blake |
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Re: fix for rename function on Mingw |
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Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:14:30 -0600 |
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According to Ben Pfaff on 3/21/2009 6:03 PM:
>> On Windows there is no link as on linux. The link file on windows is
>> just a regular file with
>> the address of the original on it. So I don't know how to test it on windows.
>
> Windows does support real hard links, although this feature is
> not well known. There is information on how to create them under
> Windows at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
> as Bruno pointed out earlier.
Or the gnulib link module. But it does not work universally - FAT and
other puny file systems don't support hard links, so you have to run your
test on NTFS or similar.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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