From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25974 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2020 18:26:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25960 invoked by uid 89); 30 Jan 2020 18:26:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=principal, ulli, Ulli X-HELO: us-smtp-1.mimecast.com Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com (HELO us-smtp-1.mimecast.com) (207.211.31.120) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:26:37 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1580408795; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=uvN8ZmKILfOQtaEWEj71HPKgeEarbLMJHyK/1Uk9avA=; b=iZbGI9ZmJ4VY1VDcEkxThwpy6ZqC89OeqsY4CsuXXflmsdVCt9o9kiA3sDbNiVDXnCkJtK aMfBNBafp6BQgmdp+CXeWn96lI1f00VPo/63yuB+CSEbYQq7Ct50r81u6M6BURTxDRBRZ4 9allLm5YQ39dHeYlmoO2qTkzlUkShy8= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-25-sFkzl_ceMNyPYfDztqP6cg-1; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:26:28 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B896800D41; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.117.16] (ovpn-117-16.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.117.16]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60A9177939; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: hardlinks on directories? To: cygwin@cygwin.com, framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de References: <20200130181516.GA29782@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:26:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200130181516.GA29782@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00314.txt.bz2 On 1/30/20 12:15 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > (I am a UNIX senior admin, but have VERY few knowledge on Windows) > > UNIX does not support hard links on directories (in opposite to Windows?). Windows does not either. > > Are this directory hard links? No, rather they are parallel mount points (the same directory mounted under two different names). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple