Anthony Williams wrote: > Vladimir Prus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Anthony Williams wrote: >> >> > Vladimir Prus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Shame about the "NT symlinks not supported yet" errors... >> >> >> >> Hmm... I hope someone more knowledgeble about NT will implement them >> >> someday. I even don't known is there's command line tool to create >> >> them. >> > >> > Within an NTFS partition you can create hard links for files. You can >> > also link directories within or across local drives, so c:/cdrom points >> > to the contents of the CDROM drive, and c:/boost_current points to >> > c:/libs/boost_1_30_0. >> > >> > I can provide code for doing the former; www.sysinternals.com provide a >> > tool (with source code) for doing the latter (junction). >> >> I've looked at the latter now, and would be very interesting in code for >> the former --- since hard links for files more closely match Unix links >> semantics. > > The code below creates a file "c:\target", and then creates a link to it > called "c:\link".
Thanks! We'll try to add support for symlinks on NT using your code. I think this can happen before V2 is realeased. - Volodya _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
