the question re nfsv4 is: do the win32 symlink calls do the right thing? if they do then we can easily check at runtime for the relevant win32 api and use that for creating symlinks
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:36:56 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= wrote: > Glenn, what will happen if the Windows file system allows real > symlinks but no shortcuts, i.e. samba mounts from Linux or NFSv4 > mounts (I think Roland has just send you > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/windows/ as reference)? It > might be an interoperability problem, at least for NFSv4, and may be > for samba too, if scripts are supposed to run on both Windows and > Linux the same way, unless AST on Linux will recognize Windows > shortcuts too. > Olga > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Glenn Fowler <g...@research.att.com> wrote: > > > > uwin implements symlinks as shortcuts > > this was done before win32 added (almost) real symlinks > > the win32 model is strange > > it needs to know if the target is a dir or not > > it insists on storing the absolute path of the target > > in some (if not all) cases it requires the target to exists before creating > > the symlink > > > > shortcuts are weird themselves > > but their flexibility is more friendly to unix symlink semantics > > > > uwin creates symlinks as shortcuts > > but it accepts all of the win32 shortcut/symlink incarnations > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:50:20 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= > > wrote: > >> Glenn, can you explain how UWIN does symlinks, and how they differ > >> from Windows Vista symlinks, and how these differ from traditional > >> UNIX symlinks and NFSv4 referral points > >> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-referrals-00 , > >> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1454/gjuaj.html)? > > > -- > , _ _ , > { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } > .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanov...@gmail.com \-`\-'----. > `'-..-| / http://twitter.com/fleyta \ |-..-'` > /\/\ Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer /\/\ > `--` `--` _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list uwin-users@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
