From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-11-21T22:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-2858 ] testing for hardlink with "test(?-, ...)" flawed on Windows

Hi,

At Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:43:29 +0900,
daz wrote in [ruby-core:06677]:
> p test(?-, 'D:\RUBY\BIN\IRBBAT~1.PIF', 'D:\ruby\bin\irb.bat')  # s/c to DOS file
> #-> false  ( but file1 is a shortcut to file 2 ... ? hard link ? )

Shortcuts are neither hard links or symbolic links.
They don't have to contain only target path names.

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Nobu Nakada