Symlinks support status?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-11-05 14:10, Dan North <tastapod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl> wrote:
> > On the other hand: what about discussing about specific systems
> > instead of 'general case'? Namely - Windows. They do not have
> > symlinks, but they have those .LNK files which to some degree
> > work as symlink, at least for GUI tools. Maybe it would make
> > sense to convert symlinks to .LNKs?
>
> Actually Windows (more specifically NTFS) does support
> symlinks. They are called "junction points" and are restricted
> to local directories only (i.e.  you can't link to another
> drive and you can't point to an individual file).  See
> http://tinyurl.com/yg6re4 for a utility for playing with them.
>
> Now I'm not saying that NTFS isn't rubbish (it is) and slow (it
> is), but it does at least have a half-assed implementation of
> symlinks.
>
> What was the thread about again?

As silly as it sounds, there are *many* installations that do not
use NTFS as their base file system :(