Re: [Boost-users] Junctions on NTFS

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Junctions on NTFS
From: Michael Fawcett (michael.fawcett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-30 15:14:15

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Thomas Voigt<tvo_spambox_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we started using junctions to some degree, and it is rather unfortunate that boost doesn't support junctions (boost::filesystem_is_symlink will always return false on NTFS filesystems). We are using 1.38.
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1681 has a patch, is there a specific reason why this patch didn't make it to stable version?

Just as a bystander...hard link support would be nice too if it's not
already supported.

--Michael Fawcett