Windows: hardlink support is broken on shared drives

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Aug 18 13:09:29 CDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 20:02 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> I'll probably try taking testlink.py, Python and win32api out of the
> equation and hack a small C++ testprogram calling the
> GetFileInformationByHandle Windows API function directly.

Sounds good. I talked with Jeremy Allison of Samba about hardlinks a
while back and he claimed that CIFS -did- support them, so perhaps we
are missing something here.

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