RE: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points

[Fred Kulack <kulack at us dot ibm dot com>]

On 08/03/2005 at 03:42:34 PM, cygwin-owner wrote:
>From the links below it seems that windows itself doesn't handle NTFS
junctions points well.  Sounds like another feature that wasn't well 
thought
out, kind of like NTFS alternate data streams.
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I don't know the original posters environment or exactly what problems 
he's trying to solve, but I'd recommend liberal use of the cygwin command 
line,
mount points, symlinks and 
cygpath-dash-w-using-scripts-and-aliases-that-launch-windows-utils.

I've found this to be a great way to have a rational sort of directory 
structure and get me out of drive letter and c:/Documents\ and\ 
Settings/Administrator/My\ Documents
hell to blissful /doc ignorance (in most cases). 8-)


"It was a rigorous result in information theory that once you could 
learn in a sufficiently flexible manner - something humanity had achieved 
in the Bronze Age - the only limits you faced were speed and storage; 
any other structural changes were just a matter of style."
[Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan]

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