Re: core with ln command

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Bob Proulx wrote:
[snip]
> I did not even realize that ms-windows supported links, hard or soft!
> I learn something new every day.  (Really I expect this to be magic
> that the Cygwin folks have pulled off to even make this partially
> work on ms-windows.)
[snip]

IIRC Cygwin supports symlinks via text files with special attributes (hidden,
system?) and a certain size. The target of the link is given by a filename
contained in the file. I have no idea about hardlinks. I suspect it may just
copy files.

DJGPP will also have symlink support in the next version, using a similar but
slightly different technique. You might ask why it doesn't use the same method
as Cygwin and therefore be compatible with it. There were objections to the
use of the special attributes and their interaction with existing DJGPP and
non-DJGPP programs.

Bye, Rich =]

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