CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

[Earnie Boyd]

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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