Hardlink behavoir?
Frank-Michael Moser
moser@decodon.com
Thu Sep 12 12:49:00 GMT 2002
There is a native command on WinXP (2000, NT?) to create hardlinks:
fsutil hardlink create /?
Syntax : fsutil hardlink create <neuer Dateinname> <vorhandener Dateiname>
z.B. : fsutil hardlink create c:\foo.txt c:\bar.txt
After once a hardlink is created with Win's fsutil or with Cygwin's ln I
found no means to decide which one originally did create it. So I guess
that Cygwin-hardlinks should work fine for native Win-applications too.
Frank-Michael
Eric D Crahen wrote:
> Hardlinks on NTFS work great when you are using them only from within the
> cygwin environment. What happens when I modify one of the hardlinked files
> from outside cygwin. For example, if I execute 'ln MyDocument.doc
> MyLinkedDocument.doc' and then were to edit one of the files in Word or
> some other non-cygwin app.
>
> - Eric
> http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~crahen
>
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