On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:35:37 -0500, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> writes:
Microsoft has published an API for Windows Vista supporting POSIX-like symbolic links.
Unless someone has a killer argument against, I'll add a create_symlink() function to Boost.Filesystem.
This seems perfectly reasonable. In practice, however, I think any program that creates symlinks will be highly confusing for most Windows users,
You mean more confusing then magic folders that transport you around the filespace in odd ways -- like My_Documents?
and thus this feature is likely not to ever be used by most users of the library. This seems to show how platform-specific many filesystem manipulations really are.
I think links are an incredibly useful tool Unix and I sorely miss them when I use Windows...so I actually think this feature will get used extensively -- well at least by me ;-) Jeff