Re: windows junction points vs. SVN_67460

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:00:03PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:46, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:40:56PM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote:
> >
> >> When you create a symbolic link on Windows you have to pass whether
> >> the link will point to a directory or to a file.
> >
> > NTFS junctions also?
>
> As far as I can tell, NTFS junctions are for directories only, and
> cannot be used for files.

Right, so all of this has quirks...

Well, I guess APR could always add an extra API we could use,
without causing the compatibility problems Bert mentioned.

The existing API would still be present and only support good
old UNIX symlinks, but new functions could be added to deal
with the various quirky windows "equivalents" (excuse my sarcasm :)

But I'm not an APR dev so I don't know what they would think of
this idea.

Stefan

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