Re: [jira] Commented: (DERBY-304) If by mistake you give he location for the db backup as the db itself , then windows created directories recursively until windows crashes!

[Rajesh Kartha]

Suresh Thalamati wrote:



I tried getCanonicalFile() on Windows xp , it does not resolve 
symbolic/hard links.

I feared that must be the case for Windows

Does the comparision u mentioned works on Linux if there are hard links ?



The comparision does not work on hard links but sure works for soft 
links. Eitherway hard links are not for directories.
[
$ ln adir temp
ln: `adir': hard link not allowed for directory
]

Regards
-Rajesh