RE: [boost] Filesystem: remove_all should not follow symlinks

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-21 16:29:57

At 01:48 PM 11/18/2003, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

 >I guess you mean junctions when you write about journals.

Yep. That shows you how little I know about them - I can't even keep the 
name straight.

 >  I've never used
 >these, but looking at various MSDN documentation, the following comes 
up.
 >These suggest it is possible to create symbolic links.  They mention the
 >behavior that you can run the DIRectory command on them from the shell
 >prompt, which means even utilities that treat files and directories
 >regularly without knowledge of whether they are junctions or not could be 

 >confused by them.  However, they seem very hard to actually create for
 >various reasons (The command that creates them is obscure and hidden away
 >on a resource cd, the APIs are very low level, etc).  These pages may
 >contain more information on them than what you already have:
 >http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1198/ntfs/ntfs.aspx
 >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base
 >/reparse_points.asp
 >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524
 >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base
 >/fsctl_get_reparse_point.asp

Thanks! I was aware of some of those but not all.

I think I've finally come up with a strategy for dealing with links of 
various kinds. See my reply to Walter's message which I'm about to post.

--Beman