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Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>, Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
--- Robert Collins <robert.collins@syncretize.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
> To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms@yahoo.com>
> >>I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system;
> > >>gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on
> NTFS.
> > > Why not? I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this
> limitation?
> > Sure -- figure out a way to implement hardlinks on FAT.
>
> It's called cross linked files... and checkdisk will 'fix' it :[.
>
Then the only way to get around that is to emulate hard links, instead of
actually creating a cross-linked file?
Cheers,
Nicholas
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