Windows: hardlink support is broken on shared drives

[Gavin Erry]

All

 

I've been reading this thread with interest since I posted the problem on
the discussion list.  Thanks for the fix - I will test it in the next build
of Hg.  It seemed strange that GetFileInformationByHandle doesn't work too
well so I had a look (in C++ though)

 

It seems that you can get different results depending on how the handle was
created with the CreateFile function.

If I use GENERIC_READ or FILE_GENERIC_READ for the desired access in
CreateFile then I get an incorrect hardlink count.

Using FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES | SYNCHRONIZE (which is a subset of
FILE_GENERIC_READ) then I get the correct hardlink count over the network.

 

This is all with Windows XP, and MS C++ (I don't do Python).

 

This is really a FYI - I have a bit of C++ code if anyone is interested, but
am not sure of the posting policy.

 

Gavin

 

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