X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:31:44 -0500 (CDT) From: tmcd@panix.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: genisoimage and links. Problems? In-Reply-To: <4897CEF4.87CA3FAD@dessent.net> Message-ID: References: <4896EA4E.9060303@alice.it> <489752FE.B48FB69A@dessent.net> <4cee11bc0808041840o4507f55bse35be845c9d6f9cc@mail.gmail.com> <4897CEF4.87CA3FAD@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: > Sam Hanes wrote: > > > Actually, NTFS does support symlinks, but unfortunately that > > capability is not exposed in the Windows GUI. There's a > > command-line tool from SysInternals that can manipulate them. > > If you are referring to junctions, they are most certainly not the > same thing as symlinks, for a number of reasons: they only work with > directories; the target can only be an absolute path; they can't > cross partitions and if you use Windows Explorer or "del" to delete the junction, it blows away all the files under the real directory. In contrast, in UNIXy systems, if you even "rm -rf" a symlink to a directory, the pointed-to directory is unharmed (the "-r" is useless). -- Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd@panix.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/