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You can't just say something like that unqualified. My life is made better daily by the presence of symlinks.

• rbanffy 17y ago
  My life under Windows is made worse daily by its lack of, among other niceties of civilization, symlinks. Hard-links would also be a nice addition. I am sure NTFS supports them deep inside it.
  • halo 17y ago
    NTFS does indeed support both symbolic links and hard links in recent versions of Windows, and they can be created with the "mklink" command-line utility. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link)
    • gaius 17y ago
      NTFS always supported links, but there was no interface to actually using them from the Win32 subsystem. However the POSIX subsystem could use them since NT 3.5 at least.
      • coliveira 17y ago
        is this support used by cygwin?
        • imd 17y ago
          From memory, yes. Also, GNUS uses hardlinks, and it worked for me under Windows XP.
    • litewulf 17y ago
      In fact I strongly suggest you consider ntfslink (http://elsdoerfer.name/=ntfslink http://elsdoerfer.name/=ntfslink) which provides a nice UI for doing all this in explorer. As far as I can tell, reparse points for directories will usually work perfectly well for most of the things you'd expect them to. I use them, and a subversion repository to version control pretty much everything config related on my windows machine.