>> Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems >> don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done. >> So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'. > > Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports > creating hardlinks on NTFS since... oh, lemme see... 1997.
Okay. My mistake-- I'm using VFAT here. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/