Vista To Get Symlinks?

Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 30, 2005 @10:36PM from the sounds-like-another-os-i-know dept.

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)."

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Re:Allow me to be the first to say... by masklinn · 2005-10-31 01:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That quote pales in comparison to Philip Greenspun's
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

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