Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030425AbVJEXtd (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:49:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030403AbVJEXtc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:49:32 -0400 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:62988 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030425AbVJEXtc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:49:32 -0400 To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4U0XH-3Gp-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <20051005103612.GQ10538@lkcl.net> <871x2zwob2.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20051005232844.GV10538@lkcl.net> From: Nix X-Emacs: the prosecution rests its case. Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:49:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20051005232844.GV10538@lkcl.net> (Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:28:44 +0100") Message-ID: <87wtkrv81p.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 27 On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton said: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:12:49AM +0100, Nix wrote: >> On 5 Oct 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton murmured woefully: >> > nt 5.0 added hardlinks to ntfs. >> >> Actually they've been present from the start, but only accessible >> through the POSIX subsystem and (IIRC) the Backup API (?!!) > > *hack* *cough* *choke* someone call 911. *thump* too late. I agree, it's barmy. (Cygwin, running under the Win32 subsystem as it does, manipulates hardlinks via the Backup API.) I assume the `logic' was that even though hardlinks were only there for the sake of the mostly-useless POSIX subsystem, you still might want to back them up... -- `Next: FEMA neglects to take into account the possibility of fire in Old Balsawood Town (currently in its fifth year of drought and home of the General Grant Home for Compulsive Arsonists).' --- James Nicoll - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/