Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Windows 2000 Server, XP and 2003 Server, at least, include a linkd.exe utility which creates actual symlinks. It only works on NTFS filesystems, AFAIK, but it works well. Active Directory relies uses linkd'd directories in several places (for instance, SYSVOL and SYSVOL/domain).
Nope. Contrary to Microsoft propaganda, those are not symbolic links but junction points. Junction points offer a kind of limited symbolic link but only on directories. Files are treated as hard-links. And neither one can be relative or cross volumes. They also suffer from problems with cycles. And, as you say, only under a certain file system. The windows api also does not expose these properly on a network either (unlike Samba), so OSes that are not those versions cannot access them.
Windows Vista includes the first real attempt to add symlinks, but they are still broken (and dramatically inferior) in comparison to Unix. Similar limitations: a max of 31 in a directory, relative symlinks cannot cross volumes, you manually need to distinguish between files and directories when creating or deleting them, they don't show up to other machines on the network that are not vista, etc.
So, in summary, no. I stand by my statement. No Microsoft OS to this day supports symbolic links.
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