Re: [boost] filesystem hard link question

From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jbms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-11 20:08:13

I don't believe Windows supports directory hard links.  I assume though
that you were referring to ``junctions.''  AFAIK, ``junctions'' do not
keep the directory `alive', in that I don't believe there is any
reference counting, nor do they appear as ordinary directories.  Thus,
they are more like absolute-path symbolic links than hard links, and I
would say therefore it makes more sense to have them be supported by a
symbolic link facility rather than by the hard link facility.
-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard