What's Going on between Python and win7?
John Bokma
john at castleamber.com
Mon Feb 22 17:02:47 EST 2010
Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> writes:
> On 2010-02-22, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
>> Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> writes:
>>
>>> MRAB wrote:
>>>> W. eWatson wrote:
>>>>> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It
>>>>> inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it
>>>>> gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A,
>>>>> and fired up the program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the
>>>>> file. I looked at properties for the B program, and it was clearly
>>>>> pointing to folder A.
>>>>>
>>>> Sounds like you didn't copy it but made a shortcut to it instead.
>>>
>>> Windows 7 has symbolic links?
>>
>> Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application
>> compatibility with UNIX operating systems. Microsoft has implemented
>> its symbolic links to function just like UNIX links.
>
> So symbolic links on W7 function like Unix (hard) links
> rather than Unix _symbolic_ links??
Which leads you to this conclusion?
According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365006(VS.85).aspx
There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file
system: hard links, junctions, and symbolic links. This topic is an
overview of hard links and junctions. For information about symbolic
links, see Creating Symbolic Links.
Creating Symbolic Links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363878(VS.85).aspx
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