On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Hanes wrote: > > > Actually, NTFS does support symlinks, but unfortunately that > > capability is not exposed in the Windows GUI. There's a > > command-line tool from SysInternals that can manipulate them. > > If you are referring to junctions, they are most certainly not the > same thing as symlinks, for a number of reasons: they only work with > directories; the target can only be an absolute path; they can't > cross partitions
and if you use Windows Explorer or "del" to delete the junction, it blows away all the files under the real directory. In contrast, in UNIXy systems, if you even "rm -rf" a symlink to a directory, the pointed-to directory is unharmed (the "-r" is useless). -- Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
