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From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: w32.c/link()
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:30:50 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140616T092558-81@post.gmane.org> (raw)

Hi,

I tried to use add-name-to-file from elisp,
which calls w32.c/link(). It seems to end up in doing 
a copy of the file. 
I'm fine with that, but that wasn't clear before trying it.
OTOH if hard links were possible, why not using them? Permissions?

Could someone (Eli ?) care to explain why link() is implemented this way?
Why BackupWrite() is used? I would have expected either CopyFile() or 
CreateHardLink().

Fabrice




             reply	other threads:[~2014-06-16  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-16  7:30 Fabrice Popineau [this message]
2014-06-16 14:55 ` w32.c/link() Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-16 17:55   ` w32.c/link() Fabrice Popineau
2014-06-16 18:48     ` w32.c/link() Fabrice Popineau
2014-06-16 19:27       ` w32.c/link() Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-16 20:58       ` w32.c/link() Stefan Monnier
2014-06-16 22:08         ` w32.c/link() Fabrice Popineau

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