Re: Symlinks on Win32...

/wave at ea ( former ReactOS dev )

As someone else said, NT only allows links to directories, not files (
AFAIK ), and there is still a bug that causes subversion to see linked
directories as collided. This may only apply if you locally link them
though, not if they are links in the repository. See:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2284

It might be worth investigating further, but I also have the feeling
that a lot of windows software will break when encountering junctions.

ALIBERTI Emanuele wrote:
> This is incorrect. It depends on the file system type. NTFS supports
> hard and soft links (real soft links, not serialized Explorer objects
> stored in *.lnk files).
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/hard_links_and_junctions.asp
>
>
> Recent revisions of the Win32/64 APIs even include system calls that
> create them.
>
> Hard links:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createhardlink.asp
>
>
> Symbolic links:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createsymboliclink.asp
>
>
> But even today you can create them. See
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/junction.html
>
> ea
>

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Received on Tue Jan 31 16:27:49 2006