[1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh

[Eric Blake]

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According to Thorsten Kampe on 12/14/2009 5:22 AM:
>> That's why.  FAT32 does not support hardlinks.
> 
> Well, then why don't I get this error with the latest 1.5 DLL? It's the 
> same thumb drive, the same installation...

It _didn't_ work.  In 1.5, you ended up creating a copy, which meant there
was no locking after all.  If zsh then depended on that attempt at locking
working, you would have gotten into inconsistent states.

Your best bet now might be to report this as an upstream bug to zsh, and
recommend that they use an alternative approach, such as symlink locking
(the way emacs does things), if hard link locking doesn't work because of
the underlying file system.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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