Have you tried this?

perlport says

link OLDFILE,NEWFILE

Not implemented. (Mac OS, MPE/iX, VMS, RISC OS)

Link count not updated because hard links are not quite that hard (They are sort of half-way between hard and soft links). (AmigaOS)

Hard links are implemented on Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 2000) under NTFS only.

I tried it, and after changing the original, the changes aren't reflected. Looks like it's just a plain-old copy.

I believe NTFS supports this (cause I read http://www.hlm.inc.ru/ ), but I don't believe perl(activeperl5.6 at least) implements it.

update: some links
Securiteam: [NT] NTFS Hard Links Subvert Auditing
CreateHardlink

update: Well, after looking through my \perl directory, I do find `CreateHardlink' in perl56.dll, so I don't know what's up. I still believe the implementation must be off, cause I create a file, I create a link to it using perl, I append something to , view the file, view the link, and they're different.

update: Whoa, after installing HardLinkMagic, and creating another link to my test file, it worked. This is very bizzare, veeeeeery bizzare.

update: your tests run fine now. I just dragged the files/hardlinks over to notepad, and it just didn't work the first time around. This was just weird (yes I do have NTFS, i checked ;D).

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