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Re^2: NTFS junction

by H4 (Acolyte)
on Aug 19, 2011 at 13:14 UTC ( [id://921239]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: NTFS junction
in thread NTFS junction

Looks promising although I'm not sure that a junction is the same as a symlink. The builtin readlink function returns undef for each directory entry, junction or otherwise. Anyway, I cannot compile the Win32::Symlink module - MS's cl.exe complains about the identifier W2AHELPER which I cannot find in any of the headers which VC++ express installed.

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Re^3: NTFS junction
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 22, 2011 at 22:15 UTC

    Looks promising although I'm not sure that a junction is the same as a symlink.

    The module doesn't specifically specify that it uses junctions to create symbolic links, but it's the only kind of symbolic link that's supported by NTFS as far as I know.

      NTFS supports Hard Links & Junctions and Symbolic Links.


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