Support for hardlinks in Windows XP?

[Rajendra Gutupalli]

Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> BTW: If you are testing with hard links then do you mind checking this 
> method on Vista 64-bit or Windows Server 2008 64-bit. In particular, 
> the case where the user doesn't have sufficient rights. It should 
> throw an I/O exception indicating that the user doesn't sufficient 
> rights. I've noticed on at least two machines that it fails silently 
> which suggests this is a bug we need to forward to Microsoft (32-bit 
> is okay).
Alan, I tried in Windows Vista 64 bit machine. Yes I observed 
Path#createSymbolicLink() returns silently. Here is the result that I got.

<result>
C:\Users\administrator1\Downloads>mklink abc xyz

You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.

C:\Users\administrator1\Downloads>.\nio\bin\java TestSymLink

C:\Users\administrator1\Downloads> (immediately this command prompt came 
without any exception.)
</result>

I don't see any problem in creating a hard link in 64 machine.

Thanks
Rajendra.