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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Linux has something much better - symlinks. It IS the file as far as the filesystem is concerned.
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If you are implying that a Windows shortcut is a poor man's symbolic link then you should read this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link.
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[NTFS] Symbolic links... were introduced with the modifications made to the NTFS file system with Windows Vista, but available through filter drivers[1] for Windows XP.
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A pedant would say that Vista 'exposed' them in a Windows API, but they'd been there since NTFS 3.1 and could be accessed via was once called a 'shim' - now branded as a 'filter driver' Ψ
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An NTFS symbolic link is not the same as a Windows shortcut file, which is a regular file. The latter may be created on any filesystem (such as the earlier FAT32), may contain metadata (such as an icon to display when the shortcut is viewed in Windows Explorer), and is not transparent to applications.
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My emphasis.
Why did MS keep them under wraps 'til Vista - Cairo/Longhorn/WinFS and all that .... Ψ^2
BR