[ale] OT: Windows / NTFS link question?

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks Bj?rn,  (as I feel smart about cutting and pasting your name to
get the special ?.)

I will give it a shot under cygwin.  The only negative I know of for
cygwin is that you can't sell programs that use their dll, but this is
for internal use anyway.

And I know the posix API supported by cygwin far better than the
standard windows API.

Greg

On 1/9/07, Bj?rn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:
> As I understand it, "junctions" are more like symlinks, and they only
> work on directories, so that's not likely to be much use.
>
> You can do hard links on NTFS (see
> http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/hard-links.phtml for an example)
> but I think windows file locking semantics might still get in your
> way.  I'd recommend trying to use the cygwin subsystem or M*ft's
> so-called "Windows services for UNIX" (formerly Interix) as a basis
> for writing such tools.
>
> As an even more OT aside, it's very sad to see sysinternals has
> succumbed to M*ft's deadly embrace.  They made some really nice tools.
>
> --Bj?rn
>
> On 1/9/07, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greg,
> >
> > Would Junction from Microsoft (formerly Sysinternals) work?
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx
> >
> >
> > bnm
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/9/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm real familiar with how "hard" links work in Linux.
> > >
> > > I have a Windows program that if I was in Linux I would handle as:
> > >
> > > Process 1 creates docs in spool directory.  (Process one can be long
> > > lived, ie. minutes, and multiple at once.)
> > >
> > > Process 2 looks for docs in spool  directory, links them to their real
> > > destination directory, and then unlinks them from the spool directory.
> > >  Due to the way Linux works, Process 1 would simply continue to write
> > > to the moved file.
> > >
> > > I need to have the 2 processes because Process 1 is creating millions
> > > of files in one directory right now and I don't have source for it so
> > > that I could make it use subdirectories in the first place.  (Life in
> > > the windows world.)
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if NTFS / Win2003 offer a similar function?  I know
> > > about shortcuts, but that won't cut it.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Greg
> > > --
> > > Greg Freemyer
> > > The Norcross Group
> > > Forensics for the 21st Century
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
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