RE: Crazy 5-step plan to remove the cached pristine copy

Windows Trivia:

You can create hard links (not soft links) on NTFS drives using the windows
API. Even though there is no command-line interface to the functionality.

CreateHardLink
The CreateHardLink function establishes an NTFS hard link between an
existing file and a new file. An NTFS hard link is similar to a POSIX hard
link.

BOOL CreateHardLink(
  LPCTSTR lpFileName, // link name name
  LPCTSTR lpExistingFileName, // target file name
  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes
);

Although... this approach would be limited to Windows NT, 2000, and XP. And
as far as other non-unix os'es go.. I am clue-less.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:57 AM
To: Paul Lussier
Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Crazy 5-step plan to remove the cached pristine copy

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:49, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, how does this support work on non-UNIX based
> platforms? Windows-based systems have no notion of soft- or
> hard-linked files, do they?

Presumably, it doesn't, and you have copies instead.

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