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Subject:  Support planned for vista symbolic links?
Date:  Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:38:29 -0800
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This article from Mark "Sysinternals" Russinovitch discusses the new 
"real" symbolic link feature in Vista ("real" in that it's classic 
Unix-style, where the symlink is interpreted on the local OS, even for 
links in mounted shares, and can refer to either a file or a directory):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/02/VistaKernel/default.aspx#S4

The only catch he mentions is that you need a special privilege to 
create these symlinks, and that privilege is only granted to 
administrators by default. (Usual windows reason: to "protect" users 
from tools that are not symbolic-link-aware)

Anyway: is any support planned in cygwin and/or coreutils for this 
feature?  (specifically, supporting symlink(), S_ISLNK support in stat, 
etc.)


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