Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:43:54 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <34va98-dgm.ln1@dagon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-95-178.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1304991834 14819 118.92.95.178 (10 May 2011 01:43:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 01:43:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.7 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3886 In message , Zapotec wrote: > If Microsoft had been intelligent, competent, and capable of even decent > copycatting, let alone true creativity, outside of the > inventing-new-anticompetitive-dirty-tricks department, Vista would have > included real proper symlinks, which you can click through in Explorer > without getting error messages, and which would have been available on > the right click menu: right click, drag, "Make symlink here". :P There’s a fundamental problem, in that all these special features like “junctions” and so on are intimately tied up with NTFS. There is no virtual filesystem layer, like on Linux and other sanely-designed *nix systems— everything is tied into that one specific filesystem.