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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-09-21 15:01:19 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-09-21 15:01:19 +0400 |
| commit | 8fd422fe4e07a5c78960de593c8dc502db3cc4d8 (patch) | |
| tree | e926942be1101071f926dd761a21ff6d22e66490 /winsup/doc/overview2.sgml | |
| parent | 6cabe044dd07c17bea043d924f414d74086df7b9 (diff) | |
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-file): Add new hardlink behaviour on
filesystems not supporting hardlinks.
* overview2.sgml (ov-hi-files): Change descripton accordingly.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/overview2.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/overview2.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml index c80479cfb..0761629f7 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml @@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ new UTF-16 style of symlinks is not compatible with older Cygwin release, which can't read the target filename correctly.</para> <para>Hard links are fully supported on NTFS and NFS file systems. On FAT -and some other file systems, the call falls back to simply copying the file, -a strategy that works in many cases.</para> +and other file systems which don't support hardlinks, the call returns with +an error, just like on other POSIX systems.</para> <para>On file systems which don't support unique persistent file IDs (FAT, older Samba shares) the inode number for a file is calculated by hashing its |