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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 14:13:53 -0400
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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:
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 May 2025 10:23:27 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote:
>> ...
>>>>> The key point about symlinks is they are not the same as hardlinks.
>>>>
>>>> There is no such universal concept for either of those things,
>>>
>>> Yes there is: they are defined in POSIX, which is an official standard,
>>> after all.
>>
>> 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.