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Re: svn commit: r31159 - in trunk/subversion: libsvn_wc tests/cmdline

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:26:07 -0400

Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.co.il> writes:
> Paul Burba wrote on Wed, 14 May 2008 at 16:17 -0400:
>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Lieven Govaerts <svnlgo_at_mobsol.be> wrote:
>> > Should this test even run on Windows?
>>
>> I don't think so. While Vista claims to have "true" symbolic links,
>> the closest thing XP seems to have is NTFS junction points (which can
>> only point to directories). But the utility to create junction
>> points, linkd.exe, isn't part of any standard XP install, it is
>> available only in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools download.
>> So I think we are safe skipping this test on Windows. Any
>> objections?
>
> +1, by analogy with special_tests.

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