Achim Gratz writes: > As this test works just fine on my home machine (on a local NTFS disk) I > think the reason is that the file system that contains my home directory > (a NetApp filer) simply doesn't allow me to create hardlinks and > produces copies instead.
That's actually an issue with the NetApp support in Cygwin. NetApp produces unstable inode numbers and therefore Cygwin fakes stable inode numbers by doing some hashing. While that removes problems like the inode changing underneath a cp in progress, it necessarily makes all link counts 1. The hard links themselves are fine, you can write to any of the linked files and the contents shows up in the others, but you don't get to see how many files are linked. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada