Re: [Mingw-msys] NTFS directory symlinks

[Michael S. Z. <ms...@mo...>]

On Wed June 8 2005 00:28, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> On Tue June 7 2005 23:48, Howard Chu wrote:
> > After searching the mailing list archives I see that symlinks were a 
> > major headache in the past. Just curious if there's any interest in 
> > adding support for NTFS symlinks, like this:
> >    http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html
> > It requires Win2K or newer, and only works for directories. 
> >
> You might want to look at the license requirements also, this is
> an Open Source Project.
> 
> If you need sym-links, check the version-4 uwin source.
> <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/>
>
That page is a little out of date - the uwin sources are "compiler
neutral" and are tested to build with the minGW tool chain,
among others.

> It is OSI approved open source licensed.
> They do sym-links and hard links; fat32 and ntfs; file and directory.
> 
> Mike
> 
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