What's Going on between Python and win7?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <873a0tszco.fsf at castleamber.com>, John Bokma wrote:

> 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.

“Junctions” sound like Linux/Unix “mount points”, plus Linux-style “bind 
mounts”. Except of course Dimdows puts it all into the NTFS-specific 
implementation, instead of at the virtual filesystem layer. So whereas Linux 
can handle these while letting you mix and match different filesystem types 
(ext3, XFS, even FAT32, etc), Windows cannot.