EPM STR #21

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Status:5 - New
Priority:1 - Request for Enhancement, e.g. asking for a feature
Scope:3 - Applies to all machines and operating systems
Subsystem:Unassigned
Summary:Use (hard) linking instead of copying, when possible [patch]
Version:-feature
Created By:mi
Assigned To:Unassigned
Fix Version:Unassigned
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17:03 Nov 16, 2009		The patch below should help large projects (such as OpenOffice) save a lot of I/O time and disk-space during packaging.

It changes the copy_file function to attempt to use link(2) first, and only proceed to the actual copying of the files, if link fails for any reason.
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