David, does UWIN support Windows symbolic links, if the file system (i.e. Windows equal or newer than Vista, on ntfs) supports them?
Olga On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:18 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Windows symlink and NFSv4 referrals points (was: Re: > [uwin-users] Problem with rm'ing a Vista symbolic link) > -------- > >> Glenn, can you explain how UWIN does symlinks, and how they differ >> from Windows Vista symlinks, and how these differ from traditional >> UNIX symlinks and NFSv4 referral points >> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-referrals-00 , >> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1454/gjuaj.html)? >> >> > > UWIN has had symlinks way before they were added in Windows. It use > windows shortcuts to implement symlinks. The symlink file is a shortcut > to the actual file. The shortcuts generated by UWIN have > additional information so that it gets the UNIX path name, but > it is able to read shortcuts generated by Windows. > > 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
