[ python-Feature Requests-1578269 ] Add os.link() and os.symlink() support for Windows

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Feature Requests item #1578269, was opened at 2006-10-16 08:21
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.6
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Add os.link() and os.symlink() support for Windows

Initial Comment:
NTFS version 5.0 and up has all the needed APIs for
creating hard links and symlinks (junctions), so it
should be possible to add support for both hard links
and symlinks to the posixmodule.

Here are a few references:

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
(see list of links at the end of the page)

http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp
(junction points only, but includes analysis and source
code)

Note: NTFS 5.0 is supported in Win 2k, XP, 2003 and later.


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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2007-03-15 23:50

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Note a similar feature request which also contains a possible patch:
478407

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-10-17 08:47

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We shouldn't expose junctions as symlinks. Instead, Vista
will get real symlinks, so we should use that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createsymboliclink.asp


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