From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T13:28:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-2858 ] testing for hardlink with "test(?-, ...)" flawed on Windows

--- nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@ge.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:39:01 +0900,
> daz wrote in [ruby-core:06683]:
> > If there aren't any hard links on Win9X, all I can
> > think of is to compare the same file:
> 
> AFAIK, Win9X family don't support NTFS and others,
> which is
> required for hard links and reparse points.  The
> only way I
> thought of is to compare expanded pathes.

raise NotImplementedError unless NTFS

Stop coddling the Windows 9x crowd.  It's dead.  Do
you really want to have to maintain this code base in
the future?

- Dan


	
		
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