[Zope-dev] Proposal for optimized Blob handling

[Sidnei da Silva]

On 3/7/07, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
> > Does this work on Windows?
>
> Link does not work on Windows using the link() function from the os
> module.
>
> I don't know whether Windows has any API for doing this kind of
> operation.

Yes [1] it [2] does [3].

The omission on os.link() is just the lack of a good soul to
contribute it apparently [4]. A good task for a friday evening.

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363860.aspx
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_hardlink.mspx?mfr=true
[3] http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/hard-links.phtml
[4] http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread537011.html

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