Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Baksik, Frederick (NM75)

> From the links below it seems that windows itself doesn't 
> handle NTFS junctions points well.  Sounds like another 
> feature that wasn't well thought out, kind of like NTFS 
> alternate data streams.
> 
> "More than four years after this functionality became 
> available, it seems Microsoft still has barely documented it, 
> and hasn't exposed it in Windows except in the most cursory 
> way. It is still a far bigger chore than necessary finding 
> information about this functionality in Microsoft's knowledge 
> base. Anyone who want to learn about it can only resort to 
> scrounging across the web. Links on Windows exist, but they 
> are useable only due to the efforts of a handful of third 
> party tools developers."
> 
> -- Frodak
> 

Weren't we supposed to have ditched filesystems entirely by now, and be
storing all of our ASCII text files with their completely-intractable
combination of "\r\n"/"\n"/"\r" line endings in some sort of object-oriented
database or some such madness?

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle


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