From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2009-03-13 11:30:03
|
Quoting Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>: > > Quoting Robert Riebisch <rr...@bt...>: > >> Keith Marshall wrote: >> >>>> Hard links exist since Windows 2000. >>> >>> A hard link is *not* a symlink. >> >> It's better than nothing. ;-) We also have junction points. >> > > MSYS' ln will create a hard link on an NTFS device. If someone is > interested in modifying MSYS to use junction points as a symlink I > think Cesar wouldn't mind to look at a patch. The junction points will > cross drive boundaries and do come in handy. > I discovered something interesting with junction points that is baffling me. I created a junction bar.junction foo.file and while MSYS tools have no problem with reading bar.junction as a file the windows native tools like gvim see it as a directory. Can someone educate me? Earnie |