[ros-dev] Re: Symbolic Links

[mf]

David Hinz wrote:
>   I was just wondering, if we could implement symbolic
> links in ReactOS.
>  As I don't want to add this feature to every filesystem that doesn't 
>  support symbolic links, I thought about another way.
>  I had two ideas:
>  1. Use a file for this, comparable to files like HOSTS etc
>  2. Use the registry 
NTFS supports Junctions, which are the same as symbolic links. Some 
people say they're more like hardlinks, but hardlinks don't span 
multiple drives or even network shares.
More info:
http://www.answers.com/topic/ntfs-junction-point
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q205524
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html

Expect the functionality to be there when ReactOS gets an NTFS driver.

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