Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:50:14 -0400 | From | Kurt Wall <> | Subject | Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 |
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Also sprach Francois Gouget: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > Francois Gouget writes: > > > > > This looks like a bad idea. The reason is that the VFAT driver is > > > the wrong abstraction layer to support the '.lnk' files: > > > > > > * on Windows if you open("foo.lnk") you get the .lnk file, not > > > the file > > > it 'links' to. On Linux you would get the file it points to > > > instead which is a different behavior. > > > > That's a common Windows app bug which exists exactly because > > the Microsoft implementation is at the wrong abstraction layer. > > No it is not a 'Windows app bug' bug. It is you who are mistaken > because you persist in believing that .lnk files are or are meant to > be symbolic links. They are not. > > Unix has the exact equivalent to .lnk files. These are the '.dsektop' > files used by KDE and Gnome (they even used to be called '.kdelnk' > files in KDE 1).
These files *are not* Unix files in the sense that they have universally understood or generally accepted semantics. They are artifacts of KDE and GNOME and the window managers I use do not know how to interpret them, except as plain vanilla text files.
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