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Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:52:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed
- References: <4ac56ac71a2d4993e0fa2a7caece8315 at denis-excoffier dot org> <517E46BC dot 7080300 at gmail dot com> <49719136-EC1C-4507-83E6-CB2B071D5885 at Denis-Excoffier dot org> <517EF51C dot 8060809 at gmail dot com> <287127553 dot 20130430171652 at mtu-net dot ru>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Said that, it IS possible to create a symbolic link to a file in Windows XP,
> even though you can't access it afterward.
I think you mean a junction (reparse point) instead of a symbolic
link. Yes, it is possible to have a junction to a file even though it
isn't supposed to work (meaning documented as not supported). The
underlying API will do the right thing but the Windows UI doesn't grok
it properly.
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