NTFS junctions for ln and ls (and others?)

[Tuomo Latto]

Hi,
I'm not sure if this the right place to post this
since I'm not sure if you deal directly with Windows
ports.
Anyway, I'd like to suggest that for Windows
ln would create NTFS junctions whenever possible
and politely refuse when not possible.

Junction support would be especially nice in ls
(and maybe in some other utils as well) since
it already recognizes similar functionality on Un*x side
(-F parameter).

There is at least some amount of existing (and working) code
for creating and deleting junctions available at
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction
although I'm not sure about the licensing.


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