b19,20: ln -d - hard links .. ?

Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com
Mon Nov 9 15:48:00 GMT 1998


> Win32 doesn't do hard links!  Remember you're not on UNIX your only
> emulating it and there will be things nearly impossible and this
> will be one of them.

Hard links *are* supported by Cygwin on NTFS partitions for files.
However, Cygwin does not support hard links to directories.  Under
Windows 95, hard linking a file just results in a file copy.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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