Symbolic links on NTFS with real symbolic links

Neil Mowbray Neil.Mowbray@calgacus.com
Thu Oct 29 05:27:00 GMT 2009


Dear Folks,

On NTFS systems that support real symbolic links (eg those with Vista)
the comand ln -s does *not* create a native symbolic link merely an old
style shortcut.

Will ln -s be chansed to support native symbolic links?

Also rm <link> removes the target of the symbolic link not the link file.
Is this what you want?

Regards, Neil


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