On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Davide Libenzi wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >>> However, it might be possible to use .lnk files, which would work on >>> both NTFS and FAT32, and even under Win9x. >> >> >> The .lnk files are a shell thing, not an OS one. Try to open()+read() a >> .lnk file and look at what you get ... >> > > Except that Cygwin uses them transparently, so if you do open() and read() > under Cygwin they work as expected. With Cygwin you don't even need .lnk files, since it already supports all the Unix symlinks APIs/cmds. The discussion born thinking about a native Win32 interface, w/out the Cygwin crud in it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 27 08:03:19 2005
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