From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Re : [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419025034.GA20112@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <911049.15453.qm@web24501.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> > Windows has a concept of shortcuts (.lnk files). Cygwin's ln
> > creates a shortcut to simulate a symbolic link. MSYS implements
> > 'ln -s' by doing a file copy. I don't think it works for
> > directories.
> >
>
> For directories, you have NTFS junctions. 'Linked' directories
> appear as actual directories in the filesystem.
Windows and NTFS actually have several kinds of link types, resembling
symbolic and hard links, apart from .LNK files and junctions. They
kept adding more with each version of Windows.
But I doubt if simply losing 'qemu.exe' will cause any great tragedy
for Windows users.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-19 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 16:01 [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 16:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-19 11:22 ` Stefan Weil
2009-04-19 11:32 ` andrzej zaborowski
2009-04-18 17:22 ` Andreas Färber
2009-04-18 17:45 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 18:21 ` Stefan Weil
2009-04-18 21:12 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-04-18 22:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-18 23:43 ` Re : " Sylvain Petreolle
2009-04-19 2:50 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-04-18 18:34 ` Blue Swirl
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