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Re: require bug?? (1.8.0

Michael Campbell

12/2/2003 8:01:00 PM

Gavri Savio Fernandez wrote:

>>Getting the inode will work on most unix systems. My guess is that

>>getting the physical path will work on Windows (for now anyway.
I've
>>heard that they are thinking of adding symbolic links in longhorn).
>>
>
>
> isn't the 'windows shortcut' the equivalent of symbolic links?

Somewhat, but from only the UI perspective. You can't, I don't
think,
"open" a shortcut via normal file IO calls and get to what it points
to.

I've heard that the NT kernel does support symlinks, but was never
added to the UI layer or libraries.


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