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RE: [RFD]: Using a new feature of Win2K for symlinks
- To: cygdev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: [RFD]: Using a new feature of Win2K for symlinks
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:07:00 -0500
> > FWIW, this only works on local drive resources, but not to network
> > directories. That is a function of DFS.
>
> Right but this doesn't influence symlinks in Cygwin at all.
> As I mentioned, my patch falls back if the reparse point
> algorithm fails. This could be still tuned.
I know. It was just FYI for anyone that wasn't familiar with reparse points
so they would have some idea of when this would come into play. I guess I
should have said that.
> > How about using IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT tags to implement mount
> > functionality for local resources on Windows 2000. I know
> its not as sexy
> > as OS support for real symlinks, but it is a start.
>
> You already have that functionality thru logical drive
> manager and that is transparent to all apps including Cygwin,
> too. For that, we don't need to implement anything.
I didn't know if we wanted to use it for our mount facility on cygwin under
Windows 2000. I thought it might speed up the path handling. It would at
least push it to the operating system and under Windows 2000 we would have
to check a path against fewer cygwin managed mounts.