[Wildemar Wildenburger] >> I'm thinking of letting my program create hardlinks (or symlinks). I >> know python allows doing this for ext, reiser and the like, but >> apparently not for ntfs systems. >> Is there any package out there that lets me create links in a platform >> independent way?
[Calvin Spealman] > Why isn't NTFS handled the same as any other hardlink supporting > filesystem? Is it a choice or a bug? None of the above. It's not the filesystem, it's what the platform C supports. POSIX specifies a small pile of standard routines for manipulating hard and symbolic links, and Python exposes those /when/ they're available. Microsoft's C supplies none of them. So it's a question of someone on Windows wanting this enough to volunteer to write code, tests, and docs, and volunteer to maintain, a pile of Microsoft-specific code to provide workalike functionality on Windows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
