Christopher Faylor, Thu, Jan 19, 2006 19:28:22 +0100:
quoted text
> >> By the way, if you have an access to git on cygwin with FAT,
> >> could you test your patch ($SECONDS) and then i-num patch (the
> >> machine with cygwin I can borrow has only NTFS) please?
> >
> >Works if sleep is for 2 secs (I completely forgot about that stupid
> >FAT granularity!)
> >st_ino is always the same (it is a hash of pathname).
> >Christopher, how is that supposed to work with hardlinks? (NTFS has
> >hardlinks, BTW)
> 
> There is OS support hardlinks work on NTFS/NT but not on FAT*
> "filesystems" or Windows 9x variants.  Hardlink support on Cygwin
> mirrors this.
> 

No, I rephrase the question: how does the method of calculating
.st_ino from pathname handles hardlinked files on NTFS?
By briefly looking at the code it does not seem to be possible.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html