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ln -s a generation ... goes by ... and we get mklink but still no hard links and no use-counted file system. Haven't the Bell Labs patents expired by now?
by OliverJones 10y ago
ln -s
a generation ... goes by ... and we get
mklink
but still no hard links and no use-counted file system. Haven't the Bell Labs patents expired by now?
- compsciphd 10y agohuh? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
- kodfodrasz 10y agoisn't this documentation a bit dated? AFAIK as of Win10 hard and soft links exist, and also junctions, which are a third, similar but different concept.
- ygra 10y agoIsn't that exactly what the documentation says? I mentions directory junctions, hard links and symlinks. Mind you, hard links and directory junctions have existed for quite a while (going back at least to Windows 2000). Symlinks have been added in Vista.
- jaclaz 10y agoNot really, they were added to NTFS in XP times, see my previous post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095172
- serge2k 10y agowindows has hard links.
- riffic 10y ago"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
- setq 10y agoThose who do understand it, just use it and ignore everyone else.