<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:42, Vinay Sajip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk">vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> You should be able to use symlinks even on Windows these days<br>
> (although granted they won't on portable media that uses a non-symlink<br>
> friendly filesystem, regardless of OS).<br>
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</div>Plus I'm not sure Windows XP supports true symlinks - I think you have to make<br>
do with "junctions" a.k.a. "reparse points" which are more shambolic than<br>
symbolic ;-) I know symlinks are available on Vista, Windows Server 2008 and<br>
later, but XP is still very common.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think we have any stdlib support for junctions, although we could certainly add it. In 3.2 we added symlink support for files and directories, which as you say is a Vista and beyond feature.</div>
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