Messages in this thread | | | From | "Davide Libenzi" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:52:54 +0100 |
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> Anyone want to impart clue? I'm under the impression that symlinks > and shortcuts are the same thing; hardlinks and shortcuts are > different.
If foo.lnk is a Win32 shortcut to foo.dat and You execute :
FILE * pFile = fopen("foo.lnk", "r");
You get the raw foo.lnk file. In Unix if foo.lnk is a symlink to foo.dat You get foo.dat file descriptor, that is the correct behaviour.
Davide.
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