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On 30.05.2011 11:27, John McCall wrote:
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<div>On May 30, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Sean Hunt wrote:</div>
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<div>On 11-05-30 02:15 AM, John McCall wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I don't know why (or whether) these
files are independent on disk; on Unix-y platforms,
clang++ is just a symlink.<br>
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</font>They might be hard linked?<br>
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<div>I had the impression that the Windows filesystem was sane
enough to not allow hard-linking, but I am prepared to be
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<div>I rate it more likely that some packager just didn't want to
deal with symlinks.</div>
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Hard links are possible in NTFS, but the userland really doesn't
play well with them. They're better avoided.<br>
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Soft links are also possible, but only since Vista have they become
supported by the WinAPI properly. Many tools still won't create
them.<br>
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Sebastian<br>
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