[boost] Re: Boost.Build V2, Milestone 3 released

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-23 06:02:16

Anthony Williams wrote:

> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> > Shame about the "NT symlinks not supported yet" errors...
>> 
>> Hmm... I hope someone more knowledgeble about NT will implement them
>> someday. I even don't known is there's command line tool to create them.
> 
> Within an NTFS partition you can create hard links for files. You can also
> link directories within or across local drives, so c:/cdrom points to the
> contents of the CDROM drive, and c:/boost_current points to
> c:/libs/boost_1_30_0.
> 
> I can provide code for doing the former; www.sysinternals.com provide a
> tool (with source code) for doing the latter (junction).

I've looked at the latter now, and would be very interesting in code for the
former --- since hard links for files more closely match Unix links
semantics.

- Volodya