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I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.
by abritishguy 11y ago
I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.
- sabarn01 11y agoWindows does have symlinks and hardlinks that work very similarly but are only exposed via a built in cmd command. That said no one uses them.
- wvenable 11y agoI use them. They're also heavily used by the OS itself -- the entire WinSxS folder structure is a whole lot of symlinks.
- Dylan16807 11y agoIt is? I thought it was hard links.
- stcredzero 11y agoMy work uses symlinks to avoid re-downloading 3rd party libraries in different Perforce branches.
- mmebane 11y agoI used to use them (directory junction points) quite a bit back when 64GB SSDs were still expensive and I wanted to redirect a few folders without changing my folder structure. Nowadays, the most common use I've seen is as the Windows implementation of 'npm link' for Node.js developers.
- sabarn01 11y agoI was being a little over dramatic windows has like 1B installs obviously someone "uses" them.
- abritishguy 11y agoI know but the semantics are different.