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Re: Inconsistent cpan/Win32API-File/t/file.t failure (was Re:Smoke[smoke-me/nicholas/openn] v5.19.9-200-g22d0f40 FAIL(F) MSWin32 Win2000SP4(x86/1 cpu) {smoke-me})

From:
Christian Walde
Date:
March 19, 2014 14:46
Subject:
Re: Inconsistent cpan/Win32API-File/t/file.t failure (was Re:Smoke[smoke-me/nicholas/openn] v5.19.9-200-g22d0f40 FAIL(F) MSWin32 Win2000SP4(x86/1 cpu) {smoke-me})
Message ID:
op.xcy4mqbaydyjqt@digitizedsqueak
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:43:24 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>  
wrote:

> * bulk88 <bulk88@hotmail.com> [2014-03-19 13:10]:
>> Win32 files are Reference Counted.®¹ When the last kernel handle is
>> closed, then the delete function is called in the FS driver.
>
> But filenames don’t count as references.

On NTFS they are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link#Limitations_of_hard_links

-- 
With regards,
Christian Walde



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