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Vista's Limited Symlinks
An anonymous reader writes, "Symlinks haven't really been added to Windows Vista. It seems that the calls to the Windows Vista symlink API only occur during the creation of such files or when accessing them from Windows Explorer. What this means is, you can't access symlinks from another OS. To be fair, you probably didn't expect to be able to dual-boot into XP and suddenly have access to the symlinks you created on the Vista partition earlier that day. But then again, you probably expected to be able to access these symlinks through a network share/UNC path or as files on a webserver. But you can't." From the article: "Clearly, Vista's symlink API isn't complete — hopefully this is something that can be patched via a hotfix and that we don't have to wait for Fiji to get something as simple as UNC support built in."
Vista's limited.
Theory is often inaccurate(TM)
You can't squirt files across OS's yet.
Link, please.
... and then they built the supercollider.
"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -Henry Spencer
And those who understand Unix wrote the Unix Hater's Handbook...
If you reinvent Unix poorly, does that make it a decent OS?
Laugh.
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Only on Slashdot can a first post be redundant...
Link, or do not link. There is no 'try.'
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"