On 25 October 2011 06:16, Greg Ewing
Vinay Sajip wrote:
Windows XP does not support true symlinks, but only "junctions" aka "reparse points".
Out of curiosity, how far do these fall short of being true symlinks? The points I'm aware of are:
* They only work within a volume * The GUI doesn't know about them, so it's easy to mistake a link to a folder for an independent copy of it and accidentally trash the original
Are there any others?
They are very uncommon on Windows in general, so people find them confusing when they encounter them (for example, as a consequence of the GUI issue mentioned above - I know that's happened to me). Is there any reason that hard links can't be used on Windows? (Still not cross-volume, still relatively rarely used, but a bit better known than symlinks). BTW, regardless of whether symlinks, hardlinks or copies end up being used, I'm +1 on the general proposal. Paul.