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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-26 01:49:36

Anthony Williams wrote:

> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The code below creates a file "c:\target", and then creates a link to it
> called "c:\link".

Thanks! We'll try to add support for symlinks on NT using your code. 
I think this can happen before V2 is realeased.

- Volodya