From: Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscali.be>
To: qrczak@knm.org.pl
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [WISH] Unix.fstat and symlinks for win32
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:38:53 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050201.133853.78884090.debian00@tiscali.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87brb4tsog.fsf@qrnik.zagroda>
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005, "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl> wrote:
>
> Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> writes:
>
> > Also, why not treat *.lnk as symbolic links under win32?
>
> What do you mean? It's the OS which treats symlinks on Unix, and
> Windows doesn't. For example you can't put a "link" to a directory
> in the middle of a path. And you *can* edit its contents (which is
> meaningless for a Unix symlink). It makes no sense to pretend that
> they are the same when they are not.
I did not pretend that *.lnk are equivalent to Unix symlinks -- I know
they are not. What I was proposing is that, since the symlinks
functions of the Unix module are "not implemented" for win32, it may
be a good use of them to make them create/manipulate *.lnk files. The
open_* functions need not to follow *.lnk's but the functionality
would be there if so one wishes. Some infos about the format on
http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=2&s=windows
ChriS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-01 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-01 10:07 Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-01 11:39 ` [Caml-list] " Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-01 12:38 ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2005-02-01 14:19 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-02-02 9:54 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-02-02 12:52 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-02 15:08 ` Christopher A. Watford
2005-02-02 22:08 ` Robert Roessler
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