On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:40:32AM +0100, Abe Timmerman wrote: > Op een druilerige winterdag (Thursday 05 February 2004 09:05), schreef Greg > Matheson:
> > The second patch is to allow use of the Nick Clark forest, > > rather than distclean, which can be very time-consuming. > > Link isn't implemented on original FAT-file-system Win32 platforms, > > nor on Mac, VMS. For me, the original code dies with an error > > message about link not being implemented. > > > > --- Test/Smoke/Syncer.pm.orig 2004-02-05 15:16:17.000000000 +0800 > > +++ Test/Smoke/Syncer.pm 2004-02-05 15:16:37.000000000 +0800 > > I am still working on this one as I do not want to loose the link() > functionality. This needs some thought and more work. using link (when it is there) brings 2 advantages - speed and space There's only actually 1 copy each source file taking up disk space, and making hard links is much faster than copying files. Can the Syncer find out if link is present either from use Config; or from processing @$ after eval? Nicholas Clark
