Stanislaw Findeisen wrote: > I want to create a reparse point on NTFS (any). > > Here > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/reparse_points.asp) > I read: "reparse points are used to implement NTFS file system links". > Here > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/hard_links_and_junctions.asp) > I read: "Soft links are implemented through reparse points". > > However I can't see FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT turned on in any file / > directory shortcuts I create. In fact the only attribute set in > shortcuts created using Windows Explorer is FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE. (I > am using GetFileAttributes() to examine this.) > > The questions are: > > (1) Why is that so?
Because shortcuts aren't reparse points. They're just small files that contain some information about the file or directory they point to and how to open it. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list