X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:03:33 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Finding junction points in cygwin Message-ID: <20091109120333.GF26344@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <26260606.post@talk.nabble.com> <416096c60911082351l7e3415e2s28f10549f3cf4136@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416096c60911082351l7e3415e2s28f10549f3cf4136@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Nov 9 07:51, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/11/9 aputerguy: > > Does cygwin have any ability to find/identify NTFS junction points? > > This would be useful so that you don't inadvertently mistreat them thinking > > they are regular files or directories. > > They appear as symbolic links. Dunno how to tell them from other sorts > of shortcuts. Not quite. Directory junctions appear as symlinks. Volume junctions are treated as simple directories since they are for all practically purposes the same as Unix mount points. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple