symbolic linls

[David Macek]

On 10. 8. 2016 12:46, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> Windows' symbolic links are typed: they need to know whether they point to
>>> a directory or to a file
> 
> This is of no concern for an application.

This is actually the worst problem with NTFS symlinks. The symlink becomes unreadable/untraversable if its type doesn't match the target's type. The most prominent example where this is an issue is creating symlinks to non-existent targets.

-- 
David Macek

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