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Vista To Get Symlinks?
TheRealSlimShady writes "According to a post by Ward Ralston on the Windows server team's weblog, Vista server is to get symlinks as part of the SMB2 protocol." From the post: "In Vista/Longhorn server, the file system (NTFS) will start supporting a new filesystem object (examples of existing filesystem objects are files, folders etc.). This new object is a symbolic link. Think of a symbolic link as a pointer to another file system object (it can be a file, folder, shortcut or another symbolic link)."
innovation from MS.
..and people say MS isn't innovative!
What a fantastic idea! Why didn't you UNIX guys think of that whilst you were eating ambrosia up in your ivory tower eh? ... Oh...
Microsoft 'innovating' once again, and giving the people what the want (10 years after everyone else). Go Redmond!
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
Welcome to the 1980s, Microsoft.
(Who was it who said: 'Those who don't know UNIX are condemned to recreate it. Badly.' ?)
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This is a joke, right?
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Symbolic Link and SMB2 - should I also be waiting for ZeldaFS and MegaMon?
the date to see if it was April 1st.
Vista - 1980's technology today^H^H^H^H^Hsometime next year.
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"Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to buy Windows." --Anonymous Coward
wow. so the editors must really love every 3rd article, huh?
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No, it's not April 1st, it's halloween. Microsoft are trying to scare us all away from using Windows.
Ask me about repetitive DNA
Maybe someday they'll get really advanced and invent hard links too.
"Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed BY Windows." --Anonymous Coward
No, in two years time everyone will be running around saying that MS copied it from Apple. Then someone else will jump in and say that Apple stole it from Unix. After that, someone else will claim that Apple stole it from Xerox. And I'm sure after further debate someone else will mention that it was originally an idea first postulated by the ancient greeks, before computers were even invented.
...is a compliment of the highest form.
Multiple streams are an absurdity. "Ok contestants, repeat after me: 'A file is a variable-length array of bytes.'" Steve Jobs: "A file is two variable-length arrays of bytes." BZZT. "Sorry Steve, thanks for playing." Bill Gates: "A file is N variable-length arrays of bytes." BZZT. "Whoops Bill, that's a directory. Looks like you're out too! Join us next week on 'Who wants to be an architect!'"
Reparse points are more commonly known in the UNIX community as 'mount points.'
And I'm sure after further debate someone else will mention that it was originally an idea first postulated by the ancient greeks, before computers were even invented.
m could easily be construed as a symbolic link...
Actually, I think you'll find the differential gear of the Antikythera mechanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanis
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Well. So does FAT, except it is called a crosslink, and aparently scandisk and various disk defragmentation tools do not handle it correctly ;-)
First Microsoft Shell and now this? Looks like MS Linux is nearly becoming a reality!
Later on, Vista wakes up. He sees his code-base pierced with dozens of acupuncture-like needles wired to a strange device insert new lines of source code.
*nix Developer 1: He still needs a lot of work.
Vista: What are you doing?
*nix Developer 2: Your source code has atrophied, we're rebuilding them.
Vista: Why do the symbolic links in my file system hurt?
Vista blinks
*nix Developer 2 : You've never used them before.
Vista looks confused
*nix Developer 2 : Rest, Vista, the answers are coming.
Vista passes out again.
Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
Are Plan 9 users the new Ubuntu users (who were previously the new Gentoo users)? ;)
does this mean that we can finally say that Windows is dying?
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Dennis Thompson? I didn't know that Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson fused and merged together back in the 60s to become ... Dennis Thompson.
So Slashdot doesn't post dupes, they post compliments?
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