Issue 478407: Need Windows os.link() support (original) (raw)

Created on 2001-11-05 19:34 by anonymous, last changed 2022-04-10 16:04 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg53315 - (view)	Author: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)	Date: 2001-11-05 19:34
NTFS has (always?) had hard link support. This functionality is now exposed in Win32 starting with Windows 2000 [see CreateHardLink()]. I've added Windows support to os.link(). I've tried to support FAT, NT, 95 by doing a CopyFile(). 2000 support is enabled by defining _WIN32_WINNT=0x500 in pythoncore.dsp. When this is done, the redundant #include <windows.h> in errnomodule.c gives compilation errors.
msg53316 - (view)	Author: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)	Date: 2001-11-05 19:35
Logged In: NO I think that I forgot to add my email address: bcox@semio.com
msg53317 - (view)	Author: Michael Dubner (dubnerm)	Date: 2003-01-18 05:49
Logged In: YES user_id=39274 Also one can create os.symlink() and os.readlink() for all windows versions after 95 - using shell links (like cygwin do for symlink emulation).
msg53318 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2003-05-13 02:08
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 If you would like this to actually be looked at it would be best to create a patch against CVS and upload a diff file instead of a zip file.
msg53319 - (view)	Author: Collin Winter (collinwinter) *	Date: 2007-03-30 16:13
This feature request has been superseded by #1578269, which includes several references on the subject.