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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:51:20 -0400
From: Richard Campbell <richard DOT campbell AT air2web DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points
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Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> To some degree, Junction Points are more like directory HARD links,
> rather than symlinks.  

What degree is this?

Everything I can see seems to say junction points function as symlinks 
for directories, with retargeting, dangling, and fixing options.

I admit the documentation I have been looking at is sketchy - do you 
have some better info?

-Richard Campbell.

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