Hardlinks on NTFS

[Calvin Spealman]

On 9/17/06, Wildemar Wildenburger <wildemar at freakmail.de> wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> I'm thinking of letting my program create hardlinks (or symlinks). I
> know python allows doing this for ext, reiser and the like, but
> apparently not for ntfs systems.
> Is there any package out there that lets me create links in a platform
> independent way?
>
> bye
> wildemar

Why isn't NTFS handled the same as any other hardlink supporting
filesystem? Is it a choice or a bug?