On Apr 5, 2005 4:35 AM, Ira Abramov <lists-MediaWiki-l(a)ira.abramov.org> wrote:
Quoting Jan Steinman, from the post of Wed, 30 Mar:
While working with my wiki, I want to create
different layouts for
different peaces of my wiki. I could just install different
mediawiki's, but that is a bit too much space consuming...
I installed *one* copy of MediaWiki 1.4, then wrote a script that
duplicated the directory structure and hard-linked the files. Result is
multiple wikis in nearly the same space. (Unix only -- I don't think
you can do that in Windows.)
well, hardlinks, surprisingly enough, are possible in Woodnose, but M$
will not admit it openly, rather burry this fact deep in some MSDN
article they hope nobody reads :-)
Yes... I remember doing that for a system file that was always locked.
Deleting it was a pain, though...
Anyway, for those literate in C, it involves a call to
CreateHardLink(), which is defined as:
BOOL CreateHardLink(
LPCTSTR lpFileName, // link name name
LPCTSTR lpExistingFileName, // target file name
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes
);
I'll send anyone the short program I have (I can't say I wrote it,
don't remember) to make a hard link. The API is only supported,
however, on 2k and XP.
-- Jamie
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