Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 5/22/25 01:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2025 19:51:25 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
 

On 5/20/25 23:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Wed, 21 May 2025 10:23:27 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote:

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The key point about symlinks is they are not the same as hardlinks.

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There is no such universal concept for either of those things,

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Yes there is: they are defined in POSIX, which is an official standard,
after all.

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It is a standard. It is not universal. On the Windows machines that I've
used, tho closest equivalent to a symlink works significantly
differently from a POSIX symlink.

 
So Microsoft didn’t add symlinks until Vista, and then screwed it up, as
per usual.
 
So what else is new?

Nothing in particular. POSIX wasn't universal when C90 came out, and it
still isn't universal today. Nothing new, just old news that hasn't chagned.