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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:57:58 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points
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Richard Campbell 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?

You can't use a junction point to make a relative link, as you can with
symbolic links.  That makes them significantly less useful.

Brian

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