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

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:22:44PM -0500, Steven Velez wrote:
> 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
> );

Read my .sig: no new NT stuff...

Most of the NT Posix layer is a half-harted attempt to mark a checkbox
so they can get gov't contracts. Don't go there.

Cheers,
florin

-- 
"NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator."