On 10. 8. 2016 12:46, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Windows' symbolic links are typed: they need to know whether they point to >>> a directory or to a file > > This is of no concern for an application.
This is actually the worst problem with NTFS symlinks. The symlink becomes unreadable/untraversable if its type doesn't match the target's type. The most prominent example where this is an issue is creating symlinks to non-existent targets. -- David Macek
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