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[WISH] Unix.fstat and symlinks for win32

Christophe TROESTLER
- Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
  - Christophe TROESTLER
- Igor Pechtchanski
- Xavier Leroy
  - Christophe TROESTLER
    - Christopher A. Watford
  - Robert Roessler

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@k...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] [WISH] Unix.fstat and symlinks for win32

Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> writes:

> Also, why not treat *.lnk as symbolic links under win32?

What do you mean? It's the OS which treats symlinks on Unix, and
Windows doesn't. For example you can't put a "link" to a directory
in the middle of a path. And you *can* edit its contents (which is
meaningless for a Unix symlink). It makes no sense to pretend that
they are the same when they are not.

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