Re: Symlinks on Windows

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <lasse_at_vkarlsen.no>
wrote:

> Junctions work exactly like symlinks, except that they're only supported
> on NTFS, and only works for directories. The new symlinks support in Vista
> is closer, but then again, only supported in Vista.
>
> As such there is no direct equivalent on Windows as a whole and the
> current non-support on Windows is the right one IMHO.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong_at_sun.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Karl Fogel wrote:
> > > Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong_at_Sun.COM> writes:
> > >> (Please cc me on any replies)
> > >>
> > >> This FAQ says that SVN handles symlinks, but
> > >> "windows doesn't have them":
> > >> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#symlinks
> > >>
> > >> But Windows has had shortcuts for quite a while
> > >> now. Is the FAQ (hopefully) outdated?
> > >
> > > I think there was some specific reason why we couldn't just implement
> > > symlinks as shortcuts on Windows, but I don't remember what it was.
> > If
> > > we find out, we should update the FAQ to talk about it.
> > >
> > Thanks, Karl. I suspect you're right that there is a
> > specific reason. While traveling around the web, I
> > came across a page that talked about some special system
> > tool for implementing symlinks on Windows:
> >
> > http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284
> > "Windows has had symbolic links since ... NTFS 5.0.
> > It used to be called "junction point" functionality,
> > and was renamed "reparse point" functionality by the time
> > Windows XP came out...
> >
> > Which references what Nathan Zumwalt called, "a great tool
> > by Sysinternals for creating symbolic links:
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html
> >
> > There is apparently something new in Vista, as well:
> >
> >
> > http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/
> > "One of the long-awaited features in Windows Vista was the
> > ability to use symbolic links... Sadly, they don't work quite
> > as well as they could, but it's a big upgrade from prior versions...
> >
> > --
> >
> > Eric Armstrong, Document Systems Architect, Sun Microsystems
> > http://blogs.sun.com/coolstuff
> > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=cooltools
> >
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