Re: [boost] filesystem hard link question

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-11 23:07:08

At 08:08 PM 3/11/2004, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

 >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.

Here is what the discussion in the Windows Platform SDK docs says:

 >A junction (also called a soft link) differs from a hard link in that the 

 >storage objects it references are separate directories, and a junction 
can
 >link directories located on different local volumes on the same computer. 

 >Otherwise, junctions operate identically to hard links.

But I take "Otherwise, junctions operate identically to hard links" with a 
grain of salt, and would want to confirm such an assertion by testing.

--Beman