[LINK] Microsoft is dead

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Tue Apr 10 12:17:55 AEST 2007


Andy Farkas wrote:

> Wikipedia is your friend:

I may use it as a quick ref, but it ain't no friend of mine ;)

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link>
> It seems vista has grown symlinks..

(*) symlinks on NTFS can only be create by the administrator (!)

(*) http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/vista-symlinks-revisited/
     "In short, Vista’s symlinks don’t really exist. They pretend
      to be there for the user of the local machine (not to say that
      isn’t useful, because it really is), and if another Vista PC
      out there somewhere supports the proprietary symlink code used,
      it’s capable of accessing it too; but no more than that. If
      you plan on using Vista’s symlink features, you better be
      damn-well certain that all of your machines are on Vista too
      - at all times. And if you’re in a corporate setting? Don’t
      even think about it."

(*) It seems the only way to create a symlink is via the shell's
     mklink command. Wonderful.


Ya gotta laagh, otherwise you'd cry. Trust Mickeysoft to screw
up a really simple idea, Unix symlinks, apparently introduced to
Unix in 4.2 BSD (whenever that was).

cheers
rickw


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