From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: "Jon Cast" <jcast@ou.edu>, "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003d01c22d3a$5e23e900$d500a8c0@study2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020716185624.03113ce8@pop3.cris.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: "Jon Cast" <jcast@ou.edu>
> I know that if one just uses the "ln" command (no "-s" option) on a FAT
> volume you get a copy. If Cygwin packages used hard links for program
> aliases (does the TAR format support hard links?) and Setup.exe was given
> the same smarts as the "ln" command, you'd get space-wasting copies on FAT
> volumes and fast, space-efficient hard links on NTFS.
It's not the ln smarts that are needed, its the cygwin1.dll hard link
smarts. I'd happily accept a patch to the cygfile:// handler in setup to
perform hard links rather thank copies. Of course, the package maintainers
will suddenly all need to build on NTFS as well, and with hardlinks to boot,
before anything changes.
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-17 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-15 2:20 Matt Swift
2002-07-15 2:26 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 5:36 ` gzip.exe as symlink Max Bowsher
2002-07-15 5:38 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 12:41 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-15 14:47 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-15 15:57 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 22:22 ` Max Bowsher
2002-07-15 9:21 ` Dario Alcocer
2002-07-15 12:02 ` gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el Jon Cast
2002-07-15 17:05 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2002-07-16 8:59 ` Matt Swift
2002-07-16 9:14 ` David Starks-Browning
2002-07-16 9:17 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 10:21 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:27 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 19:43 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:51 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 20:12 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 20:14 ` Robert Collins [this message]
2002-07-16 23:05 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 23:42 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-17 0:53 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-17 0:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-07-17 0:59 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-16 20:36 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 23:54 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-18 17:08 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 19:49 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 19:52 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-15 15:46 gzip.exe as symlink Robinow, David
2002-07-15 15:48 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 18:51 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 18:50 files and directories distinction: Aldi Kraja
2002-07-16 19:34 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:37 ` Jon Cast
[not found] <rrschulz@cris.com>
2003-03-29 4:00 ` Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin? Jeff.Hodges
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