You should be able to use win32file.DeviceIoControl with
winioctlcon.FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT to do this.
(winioctlcon was added in build 205)
The hard part is going to be constructing the
REPARSE_GUID_DATA_BUFFER struct to pass in
as the buffer.
hth
Roger
"Stanislaw Findeisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL
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>I want to create a reparse point on NTFS (any).
>
> Here
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/reparse_points.asp)
> I read: "reparse points
> are used to implement NTFS file system links". Here
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/hard_links_and_junctions.asp)
> I read: "Soft links
> are implemented through reparse points".
>
> However I can't see FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT turned on in any file /
> directory shortcuts I create. In fact the only
> attribute set in shortcuts created using Windows Explorer is
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE. (I am using GetFileAttributes() to
> examine this.)
>
> The questions are:
>
> (1) Why is that so?
> (2) Does anybody have any idea (sample code?) on how to create a reparse
> point (the simpler, the better) using Python?
>
> I am using Windows 2000 Professional, Python 2.4 and Mark Hammond's Python
> for Windows Extensions build 204.
>
> Thank you.
>
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