NFSv4 and samba handle symlinks like Linux does, they are real POSIX file systems. Shortcuts are implemented as plain files, and there is no way to detect that they have a special function in Windows. So if I create a symlink using UWIN on Windows it will appear as plain file on Linux, using the same NFSv4 or samba file system. As result, scripts and applications running on Linux or Unix will not work with such emulated symlinks.
Olga On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:43 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: Re: Windows symlink and NFSv4 referrals points (was: Re: > [uwin-users] Problem with rm'ing a Vista symbolic link) > -------- > > >> David, I see an interoperability problem for networked file system. >> What happens if the file system on Windows is NFSv4 or samba, which >> support real, Linux like symlinks? What will happen on the Linux side >> if it encounters Windows shortcut files? >> >> Olga >> >> > > I don't know how NFSv4 or samba handle symlinks. How do they handle > shortcuts? How did they handle symlinks prior to vista? > > David Korn > [email protected] -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ [email protected] \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / http://twitter.com/fleyta \ |-..-'` /\/\ Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer /\/\ `--` `--` _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
