From 8fd422fe4e07a5c78960de593c8dc502db3cc4d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:01:19 +0000 Subject: * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-file): Add new hardlink behaviour on filesystems not supporting hardlinks. * overview2.sgml (ov-hi-files): Change descripton accordingly. --- winsup/doc/overview2.sgml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'winsup/doc/overview2.sgml') 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. 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. +and other file systems which don't support hardlinks, the call returns with +an error, just like on other POSIX systems. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3