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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 1.485s | source

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abritishguy ◴[30 Mar 16 17:22 UTC] No.11391061[source]▶

I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.

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sabarn01 ◴[30 Mar 16 17:25 UTC] No.11391085[source]▶

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Windows does have symlinks and hardlinks that work very similarly but are only exposed via a built in cmd command. That said no one uses them.

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1. mmebane ◴[30 Mar 16 17:32 UTC] No.11391175[source]▶

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I used to use them (directory junction points) quite a bit back when 64GB SSDs were still expensive and I wanted to redirect a few folders without changing my folder structure.

Nowadays, the most common use I've seen is as the Windows implementation of 'npm link' for Node.js developers.

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