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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:02:36 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [RFD]: Using a new feature of Win2K for symlinks
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"Parker, Ron" wrote:
> > - The IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMBOLIC_LINK is nice but completely useless
> >   at the moment or on a base W2K system (I don't know exactly).
> 
> IIRC this was a feature that didn't quite make it.  It was only partially
> implemented in even the RC's for 2000 and I have a vague recollection of the
> mention of third-party support.  In my mind this was an obcure reference to
> waiting on Interix to do something.

I have checked that out last weekend. We would be able to use
that as another method for implementing symlinks to regular files.
Would be no problem but would have no sense, too, because that
symlinks would be only visible for Cygwin apps. And we already
have a solution for non transparent symlinks...

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company