Christopher Faylor, Thu, Jan 19, 2006 19:28:22 +0100: > >> By the way, if you have an access to git on cygwin with FAT, > >> could you test your patch ($SECONDS) and then i-num patch (the > >> machine with cygwin I can borrow has only NTFS) please? > > > >Works if sleep is for 2 secs (I completely forgot about that stupid > >FAT granularity!) > >st_ino is always the same (it is a hash of pathname). > >Christopher, how is that supposed to work with hardlinks? (NTFS has > >hardlinks, BTW) > > There is OS support hardlinks work on NTFS/NT but not on FAT* > "filesystems" or Windows 9x variants. Hardlink support on Cygwin > mirrors this. > No, I rephrase the question: how does the method of calculating .st_ino from pathname handles hardlinked files on NTFS? By briefly looking at the code it does not seem to be possible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Jan 20 09:15:11 2006
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