From: Mike N. <ta...@al...> - 2001-05-22 09:13:13
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John Bellardo wrote: > > I'm pretty sure Windows has symlinks, just under a different name, maybe > aliases? No. MS implemented what can be used as symlinks (Junction Points) for _directories only_ in Windows 2000 using NTFS5. In Windows 2000 they also added the API CreateHardLink. That's it. NTFS<5 (i.e. NT <= 4) is also supposed to have hardlinks (for files) but that kindof never got used since it required fiddling with ioctl's. I'm not sure it even works. It still requires both NT and NTFS though. Yes it sucks, and yes the rest of the world had this for at least one and a half decade. For some info about W2k Junction Points: http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp > I don't know where the headers exist on Windows installs right > now. Is there a /usr/include equivalent on Windows? No. You only have the INCLUDE environment variable, and the dirs(s) it's pointing at is conceptually read-only. /Mike |