"cp: will not create hard link"

[Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair dot com>]

To the Cygwin mailing list:

Back in January, Thomas Baker (who is BCC'd on this) posted a question
about a large call to cp giving an error message about not being able
to create a hard link.  Ref:
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00890.html>.

I've just upgraded cygwin from 1.3.22-1 (March 18, 2003) to a couple
of different 1.5.x versions, including 1.5.5-1 (Sept 20, 2003), and
have started getting this error.

It happens in a build script that is copying about 30 directories that
contain around 3000 files in total.

Does anyone know what's going wrong here, or any workarounds other
than "don't upgrade"?

Duncan Murdoch

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