Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18

Banka
2002-06-11T01:49:19Z

christoph@lameter.com wrote:

> Full symlink support. Yes, tar creates symlinks and the vfat fs makes .lnk
> files out of the symlinks. when ls displays the directory contents the
> vfat fs recognizes the .lnk files and tells the os that there is a
> symlink. Its fully transparent. The .lnk files are only visible
> under windoze.

the paths in windows looked like this:
c:\folder\file

thus, under linux, all the links would be broken links anyway (and vice
versa).

Banka.