[ale] OT: Windows / NTFS link question?

[Brian MacLeod]

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
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> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
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