On 08/07/2010 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-07-08, Aahz<a...@pythoncraft.com> wrote:
In article<1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
imageguy<imageguy1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ?
A windows "Shortcut" ?
Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS functions almost exactly the same as
a hardlink on a Unix filesystem -- it's a pointer to the same underlying
file.
A windows shortcut is more like a Unix symlink (symbolic link), where
the real destination path is a string contained in the link/shortcut
file. That destination path is then evaluated and "dereferenced" when
the link/shortcut is accessed.
Goodness knows I'm probably teaching my grandmother etc. etc. but I
would clarify that a Windows shortcut is a *shell* concept: from the
NTFS point of view, it's just a something.lnk with some opaque contents.
A (>= Vista) NTFS smbolic link is documented as designed "to function just
like Unix links".
TJG
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