Re: fix for rename function on Mingw

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ben Pfaff on 3/21/2009 6:03 PM:
>> On Windows there is no link as on linux. The link file on windows is
>> just a regular file with
>> the address of the original on it. So I don't know how to test it on windows.
> 
> Windows does support real hard links, although this feature is
> not well known.  There is information on how to create them under
> Windows at:
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
> as Bruno pointed out earlier.

Or the gnulib link module.  But it does not work universally - FAT and
other puny file systems don't support hard links, so you have to run your
test on NTFS or similar.

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