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RE: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:55:39 -0500
- Subject: RE: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Baksik, Frederick (NM75)
> From the links below it seems that windows itself doesn't
> handle NTFS junctions points well. Sounds like another
> feature that wasn't well thought out, kind of like NTFS
> alternate data streams.
>
> "More than four years after this functionality became
> available, it seems Microsoft still has barely documented it,
> and hasn't exposed it in Windows except in the most cursory
> way. It is still a far bigger chore than necessary finding
> information about this functionality in Microsoft's knowledge
> base. Anyone who want to learn about it can only resort to
> scrounging across the web. Links on Windows exist, but they
> are useable only due to the efforts of a handful of third
> party tools developers."
>
> -- Frodak
>
Weren't we supposed to have ditched filesystems entirely by now, and be
storing all of our ASCII text files with their completely-intractable
combination of "\r\n"/"\n"/"\r" line endings in some sort of object-oriented
database or some such madness?
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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