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On Nov  9 07:51, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/11/9 aputerguy:
> > Does cygwin have any ability to find/identify NTFS junction points?
> > This would be useful so that you don't inadvertently mistreat them thinking
> > they are regular files or directories.
> 
> They appear as symbolic links. Dunno how to tell them from other sorts
> of shortcuts.

Not quite.  Directory junctions appear as symlinks.  Volume junctions
are treated as simple directories since they are for all practically
purposes the same as Unix mount points.


Corinna

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