Re^2: unable to make manifest with symlinks

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Re^3: unable to make manifest with symlinks by soonix (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2019 at 17:27 UTC
True, but because of Windows' usage of file type as part of the file name, its ".lnk" files are still different from Unix' symlinks.	[reply]
Re^4: unable to make manifest with symlinks by jcb (Parson) on Oct 24, 2019 at 23:57 UTC
No, ".lnk" files are shell links; those go back to Windows 95.	[reply]
Re^3: unable to make manifest with symlinks by jcb (Parson) on Oct 25, 2019 at 00:01 UTC
Interesting, yet they are either rarely used or not really what they look like. I am not surprised that NTFS has added such features, but I am fairly sure that there are limitations. If I recall correctly, junctions can only refer to directories and are more like Linux's bind mounts than POSIX symlinks or hardlinks, including a requirement for special privilege to create them. If XP added true symlinks, what are the commands for using them? I doubt that `ln -s` works...	[reply]
Re^4: unable to make manifest with symlinks by daxim (Curate) on Oct 25, 2019 at 07:41 UTC
what are the commands for using them? mklink, fsutil, ln (in the Windows Resource Kit), ln (3rd party)	[reply]
Re^5: unable to make manifest with symlinks by jcb (Parson) on Oct 25, 2019 at 23:45 UTC
And I will guess no support in the GUI file manager, which is all that most Windows users use, so the feature is basically useless to the vast majority of Windows users. :-/	[reply]