From: Fernando Cacciola <fernando.cacciola@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T02:02:01+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.ln_s in Vista

gga wrote:
> Fernando Cacciola wrote:
>> I just found out that Windows Vista supports symbolic links.
>
> Contrary to Microsoft propaganda that says this feature was modeled
> identical to Unix, Vista still does not support true symlinks.  Their
> current implementation suffers from:
>

>   - being limited to a max of 31 symlinks per directory.
>
Grrrrr, how useless.

>   - relative symlinks cannot cross volumes.
>   - mklink forces you to distinguish between a file or directory.
>   - other pre-vista windows versions on a network cannot see the
> symlinks (unlike Samba).
>   - NTFS only, not available on FAT.
>
The above are not a problem in my specific case... but the 31 cap is a 
showstopper.

>> 2.If not, how do  I detect the host platform so I can call Vista's
>> own mklink instead?
>>
>
> RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win/
>
OK

> further check on OS version requires platform specific code or
> checking the version of cmd.exe or similar.  Sys::Admin may give you a
> more friendly way to do this.
>
I will have to resort to hardinks for Windoze so I won't have to distinguish 
them.
Thans for the tip though.

Thanks


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