[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:34:32 -0400
andre999 <andre999mga at laposte.net> wrote:

> Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
> > I made this one from Linux.  I can't even see them in Windows.  They
> > seem to count as hidden files.
> >    
> 
> msw has had symbolic links not recognisable as such by Linux for a
> long time, by default hidden under msw.
> What you observe seems to indicate that msw7 has migrated to
> unix-style symbolic links.
> Interesting.  Gradually Microsoft is adopting more and more unix (and 
> Linux-compatible) features.
> 
> (BTW, it would be easier for others to respond point by point if you
> and others didn't top post.)

Normally I don't.  But the first reply was top-posted, so I kept going
in the same direction.

Doug.
> 
> > Doug.
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700
> > Jeff Robins<jeffrobinssae at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least
> >> win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even
> >> make them with the normal tools.
> >>
> >> --Jeff
> >> On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw"<laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>      
> >>> Everybody probably knows this except me :(
> >>>
> >>> Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of
> >>> symbolic links, identified by Linux as such.  AFAIK, this is new
> >>> in Win7; it wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.
> >>>
> >>> I have just used this advantage to get around the following
> >>> problem:
> >>>
> >>> Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing
> >>> the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with
> >>> spaces from being backed up at all.  In the parent Windows
> >>> directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible
> >>> sub-directory.  I was able to create it and add it
> >>> to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion.
> >>> Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it
> >>> unusable by its Windows app.  If Windows hadn't allowed it, I
> >>> would have put the link somewhere in Linux.
> >>>        
> 
> You can also rename directories in msw, to remove spaces, or just
> make shorter.
> >>> Doug.
> >>>
> >>>