On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh <dmi...@codingrobots.com> 
> wrote:
> $ ln -s randomfilename newlink
> 
> We don't know what kind of link it is -- folder or file, because 
> "randomfilename" doesn't exist.
> 
> Not only that, if the file does exist and is subsequently removed or replaced 
> with the other type, what happens on Windows?

I'd like to know that. Anyone has Windows Vista or 7 to try this out?

mkdir i_was_a_folder
mklink /d linkname i_was_a_folder 
del i_was_a_folder
echo "Lala" > i_was_a_folder

What happened to linkname? Does it points to a folder that doen't exist?

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Dmitry Chestnykh
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