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"Parker, Ron" wrote: > > > > > - The IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMBOLIC_LINK is nice but completely useless > > > > at the moment or on a base W2K system (I don't know exactly). > > > > > I have checked that out last weekend. We would be able to use > > that as another method for implementing symlinks to regular files. > > Would be no problem but would have no sense, too, because that > > symlinks would be only visible for Cygwin apps. And we already > > have a solution for non transparent symlinks... > > The only sense there would be in using it is that on Windows 2000 our > symlinks would interoperate with non-cygwin Windows applications. However > this falls victim to the doesn't look like a symlink across a network share > I mentioned before. But as I wrote in my last mail, you don't have that problem. They are simple directories for other machines in the network. So it's transparent, too. Really, I tried that two days ago with a NT4 and a W98 client. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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