July 18, 2006

Symlinks on Windows

Who knew? Windows actually supports symlinks. It's directory only - but that's just too bloody useful to hide away in a resource kit. Thank god we (at least for know) still have Sysinternals. Can't wait to see these guys stop making a difference as they try to work from inside the belly of the beast.
Anyways. Sysinternals provide the useful utility Junction to define... junctions - that's what they're called on Windows, directory symlinks.
This brings the well known "versioned directories, live verson symlinked" deployment technique to Windows.

Thanks for the heads up to that other Claus.

Posted by Claus at July 18, 2006 11:40 PM
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