On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:24 AM Zebediah Figura (she/her) zfigura@codeweavers.com wrote:
... How useful are Windows symlinks, though? As far as I understand normal users aren't allowed to create them by default, and only a few applications even bother using them for any reason. Granted, I might not have a particularly accurate picture of the situation.
Junction Points (effectively the same from our perspective) do not require administrator privileges, so they're more common.
Many applications break if there are symlinks in parts of the path they don't expect—in theory use of symlinks should be transparent if you're not asking for them, but they try to be symlink-aware and screw it up in one way or another (I can pull out bug reports if necessary). We have to kind of weirdly half-hide Unix symlinks to Windows applications as a result.
Yup, that's been super fun :)
Best, Erich