On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > > And another little-known fact -- NTFS supports hard links, or at least it > did in 1995, on NT 3.5 As I recall, there wasn't support at the cmd prompt, > but you could create them with system calls.
NTFS has always supported hard links as additional $FILE_NAME attributes in the MFT file record, but it was primarily meant for the POSIX subsystem. I did find a Win32 solution for NT 3.x, which may be what you're recalling. It requires 3 calls to BackupWrite in order to write a link (i.e. a $FILE_NAME attribute) to an existing file record. Apparently this was documented by Microsoft circa '96, but the original article no longer exists online. For an example see CreateHardLinkNt4() here: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/AUDREYT/Win32-Hardlink-0.11/lnw.cpp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
