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Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Proposal for optimized Blob handling
From: Tres Seaver <tseaver () palladion ! com>
Date: 2007-03-08 6:08:40
Message-ID: 45EFA868.6000507 () palladion ! com
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Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp@weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> Am I the only person here who immediately associated "link" with the
>> POSIX? Also, am I the only one who read "when possible" as "when on a
>> POSIX system where link is available", in other words, "when not on
>> Windows"? One starts to wonder...
>
> NTFS does support hard links since version 5, which means Windows
> 2000+. It does not support hard links to directories though, only soft
> links (which are called junctions or junction points). The version of
> NTFS shipped with Vista supports hard links for directories I believe.
POSIX systems don't allow hard links to directories, either, in practice::
$ man ln
...
-d, -F, --directory
allow the superuser to attempt to hard link directories (note:
will probably fail due to system restrictions, even for the
superuser)
Tres.
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