On 12/05/2011 1:00 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Sure.  Cygwin needs to add support for the OpenAFS reparse point tag data.  
> We can't claim to be a ntfs symlink since we aren't one.  Nor can we claim to 
> be an ntfs junction since we aren't one of those.

What about just the dir command?  Is it not possible for an IFS driver to get 
something reported as <SYMLINK> or <SYMLINKD> by the cmd.exe dir command?  So 
it sounds like MS added symlink support only to NTFS, rather than in a truly 
generic way.  That stinks.

Thanks for your response.

This got me curious how it might work the other way (creating symlinks in afs 
using windows tools)

The Windows mklink command just fails:

Jason

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