Re[2]: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-08 Thread Konstantin Isakov
Tuesday, May 08, 2001, 3:48:54 PM, you wrote: KI>> Of course. I don't want to say all native programs will run correctly. KI>> But some of them will and in fact they do. The ability to turn KI>> symlinking on/off dynamically allows all programs running properly KI>> (but gives a headache for the

Re: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-08 Thread egor duda
Hi! Tuesday, 08 May, 2001 Konstantin Isakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KI> Tuesday, May 08, 2001, 1:50:17 PM, you wrote: ed for example, symlinks can ed (possibly) be cycled /foo/bar points to /foo, for example. have you ed tried such configuration? how about pressing F3 in explorer

Re[2]: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-08 Thread Konstantin Isakov
Tuesday, May 08, 2001, 1:50:17 PM, you wrote: ed>>> for example, symlinks can ed>>> (possibly) be cycled /foo/bar points to /foo, for example. have you ed>>> tried such configuration? how about pressing F3 in explorer and ed>>> traversing file system? KI>> It won't die just because there is a l

Re: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-08 Thread egor duda
Hi! Tuesday, 08 May, 2001 Konstantin Isakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ed>> the problem with "native" symlinks is that many native programs don't ed>> expect them, an can be easily confused. KI> I know. It is the biggest problem. So you will have to think whether KI> any particular program will b

Re[2]: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-08 Thread Konstantin Isakov
Monday, May 07, 2001, 11:45:46 PM, you wrote: KI>> Can't say that the implementation is very clear, but it works, KI>> symlinks are really followed for *all* programs! The main and quite KI>> obvious limitation is that the driver I wrote works only in KI>> Windows'9x (and ME possibly)... ed> i h

Re: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-07 Thread egor duda
Hi! Monday, 07 May, 2001 Konstantin Isakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KI> Can't say that the implementation is very clear, but it works, KI> symlinks are really followed for *all* programs! The main and quite KI> obvious limitation is that the driver I wrote works only in KI> Windows'9x (and ME po

Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level!

2001-05-07 Thread Konstantin Isakov
Hello everybody. Have you ever wanted your symlinks to be followed for *all* Windows programs, not only for those compiled against cygwin? You know, I was lacking such capability and I implemented it (in the form of VxD driver). I decided to use existing cygwin's symlink file format (used in