Hi Eric,

You've trapped into a dark, seldom seen world. There is no great documentation or 
anything else. My knowledge is from the study of the NTFS file system and some tools 
which are creating such symbolic links.
A reparse point is a small script or some data inside a file system entry which says: 
"no, I'm not your file you're asking for, but I know where to get it from"

Regards
Jochen 


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Von: egonia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 15:12
An: Jochen Wezel
Cc: Gonia Eric - egonia; Alejandro Mery; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: AW: [Mono-list] Directory Symbolic link?

What exactly is a ReparsePoint?

This is what the .Net SDK has to say about it:
"The file contains a reparse point, which is a block of user-defined data associated 
with a file or a directory."

I guess this is probably my own ignorance, but would someone kindly explain reparse 
points to me?

I could not find anything with google on the matter.

Thanks,
Eric

 Jochen Wezel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Maybe, your question could be answered with the search for reparse
> points:
>
> System.IO.DirectoryInfo a;
> bool IsSymbolicLink = a.Attributes.ReparsePoint;
>
> Jochen
>


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