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)."

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NAME
symlink - make a new name for a file

SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>

int symlink(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);

DESCRIPTION
symlink creates a symbolic link named newpath which contains the string oldpath.

Symbolic links are interpreted at run-time as if the contents of the link had been substi-
tuted into the path being followed to find a file or directory.

Symbolic links may contain .. path components, which (if used at the start of the link)
refer to the parent directories of that in which the link resides.

A symbolic link (also known as a soft link) may point to an existing file or to a nonexis-
tent one; the latter case is known as a dangling link.

NAME
link - make a new name for a file

SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>

int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);

DESCRIPTION
link creates a new link (also known as a hard link) to an existing file.

If newpath exists it will not be overwritten.

This new name may be used exactly as the old one for any operation; both names refer to
the same file (and so have the same permissions and ownership) and it is impossible to
tell which name was the `original'.