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RE: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 03:02 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote:
> >Replying to myself -- bad habits die hard... Just to dot all the "i"s and
> >cross all the "t"s.
> >
> >One thing I forgot to mention is how to handle link counts. Those could
> >be stored in, for example, the NTEA attributes file for the original (or
> >the corresponding special) filename. I don't see anything wrong with
> >requiring NTEA on FAT in order to have hard links, BTW.
> > Igor
>
> Except for the fact that using NTEA requires NT and NTEA causes a quickly
> growing file to expand in the root directory of the FAT drive. The latter
> is what made the "ntea" option in the CYGWIN environment variable troublesome
> from day one. The former calls into question the overall value, since it
> excludes support for the very systems (9x/Me) on which there is no other
> option. Other than these two points, NTEA is great! ;-)
> --
> Larry Hall
Well, actually, I've always wondered -- what makes NTEA NT-specific? For
the most part, all NTEA does is store some information (e.g., permissions,
and, of late, owner) in a special file in the root directory. The only
explanation I could think of was that the routines that make use of this
information were only enabled on NT, but is this necessary?
Corinna or Pierre would probably be the best people to explain this.
Igor
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