Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

From: Nix
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 18:13:21 EST


On 5 Oct 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton murmured woefully:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:04:01AM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>> > You can't even see it in the directory. Netware also
>> > has inherited permissions like Windows and Samba has and this is doing
>> > it right.
>>
>> You can't do that if you have hardlinks.
>
> 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 (?!!)

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