[Tutor] symlinking dirs with spaces

[eryksun]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
>
> And another little-known fact -- NTFS supports hard links, or at least it
> did in 1995, on NT 3.5  As I recall, there wasn't support at the cmd prompt,
> but you could create them with system calls.

NTFS has always supported hard links as additional $FILE_NAME
attributes in the MFT file record, but it was primarily meant for the
POSIX subsystem. I did find a Win32 solution for NT 3.x, which may be
what you're recalling. It requires 3 calls to BackupWrite in order to
write a link (i.e. a $FILE_NAME attribute) to an existing file record.
Apparently this was documented by Microsoft circa '96, but the
original article no longer exists online. For an example see
CreateHardLinkNt4() here:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/AUDREYT/Win32-Hardlink-0.11/lnw.cpp