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From: "Gerald Villemure" <GVillemure AT ik DOT ca>
To: "Kim, Anthony" <Anthony DOT Kim AT vw DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <20011206155247 DOT GC8981 AT nabokov DOT afc DOT vw DOT com>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Junction Points
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:44:36 +0100
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There is a tool in the Win2K ResKit called "linkd.exe" which will alow you
to create "Junction Points" from the command line.

Hope this helps,
Gerald

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim, Anthony" <Anthony DOT Kim AT vw DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Windows 2000 Junction Points


> Windows 2000 (having NTFS 5.0) allows the creation of directory
> symbolic links. This can be used as mount points for hard drive
> volumes or to symlink directories across file systems. In the
> literature, the directory links are called "junction points".
>
> Disk Administration snap-in can be used to mount a drive to a
> directory or you can use linkd.exe (ResKit) or junction.exe
> (SysInternals).
>
> This is the closest thing I can find to simulate:
>
> ln -s /source /destination
>
> Now here's my question:
>
> When you perform a directory symlink in cygwin, you end up with a
> .LNK file even though you can cd into the link.
>
> $ pwd
> /mnt
> $ ln -s /cygdrive/c /mnt/test
> $ ls -l
> total 20
> dr-xr-xr-x    6 Administ Administ        0 Dec  6 09:47 ./
> dr-xr-xr-x   12 Administ Administ     4096 Nov 28 12:48 ../
> dr-xr-xr-x   12 Administ Administ     8192 Dec  6 09:47 c/
> dr-xr-xr-x    3 Administ Administ     4096 Dec  3 12:48 d/
> dr-xr-xr-x    5 Administ Administ     4096 Dec  3 12:48 e/
> drwxr-xr-x    1 vciadmin Administ        0 Dec  4 08:35 h/
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 vciadmin Administ       94 Dec  6 09:47 test ->
/cygdrive/c/
>
> $ cd test
> $ ls
> <directory listing>
>
> This works as expected. However, from outside cygwin:
>
> $ cmd
>
> G:\cygwin\mnt>dir
> dir
>  Volume in drive G is DATA
>   Volume Serial Number is 98D5-B7E1
>
>    Directory of G:\cygwin\mnt
>
>    12/06/2001  09:47a      <DIR>          .
>    12/06/2001  09:47a      <DIR>          ..
>    11/28/2001  11:26a      <JUNCTION>     c
>    11/28/2001  11:26a      <JUNCTION>     d
>    11/28/2001  11:27a      <JUNCTION>     e
>    12/04/2001  08:34a      <JUNCTION>     h
>    12/06/2001  09:47a                  94 test.lnk
>
> So the effect is lost.
>
> Because hard links work in cygwin as expected, is it far fetched
> for ln -s <directory> <linkname> to create actual junction points
> instead of .LNK files?
>
> If I'm way off base here, please feel free to let me know :)
>
> Cheers!
>
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