(exposing my Windows ignorance): Is there an analog of suid that tup could
use so that it could create these without admin-prompting every run, or is
this simply not a good path to try to go down on Windows?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 3:48 PM Ben Boeckel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 20:37:13 +0000, Pat Pannuto wrote:
> > Modern windows does have support for symlinks (aka junctions) and hard
> > links, though I've never worked with them. Could be an interesting
> > experiment to try?
>
> Needs admin privs to create them. Basically, to ensure that old Windows
> apps aren't tripped up by the different behaviors caused by them.
>
> Also, junctions and symlinks are different beasts (junction is closer to
> mount while symlinks can't be relative and point outside the drive
> letter).
>
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> --Ben
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