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Re: 'native' symlinks for 2K+
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:06:35AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> test.bat is a reparse to cygwin.bat (XP Pro). The MSDN doco says nothing
> about reparses being prevented from linking to files. Maybe that was a
> Beta 3 thing?
Hmm, I think I just remembered wrong. I've just tested it by myself
and it's not a problem.
What is annoying is that a reparse point is always of the same
type as the destination, so a `ln -s dir dir2' must create dir2 as a
directory and hook up the reparse point data to it, while a
`ln -s file file2' must create file2 as a file. This even changes
the commands needed to remove the link, DeleteFile() in one case,
RemoveDirectory() in the other case. But that's solvable, of course.
However...
> Do the above points alter this interest?
...did you try to create a reparse point to a file on another drive?
Corinna
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