Brian Dessent wrote:
You can't use a junction point to make a relative link, as you can with symbolic links. That makes them significantly less useful.
But still a giant leap from setting up drive letters with subst, which used to be the only Windows way I know to introduce a layer of indirection in file naming.
As a user of junction points, outside of cygwin, I would label them symlinks to directories only that you have to remove with rmdir.
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