Symbolic links have more functionality, while junctions almost seem to be a legacy feature because of their limitations, but the security implications of these limitations are specifically why a junction might be preferred over a symbolic link. Remote targeting makes symbolic links more functional, but also raises their security profile, while junctions are safer because … Read more
In short, define the following environment variable: CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict According to Cygwin documentation: If set to winsymlinks:native or winsymlinks:nativestrict, Cygwin creates symlinks as native Windows symlinks on filesystems and OS versions supporting them. The difference between winsymlinks:native and winsymlinks:nativestrict is this: If the filesystem supports native symlinks and Cygwin fails to create a native symlink for … Read more
Why can’t I symlink into /usr/bin? El Capitan’s new System Integrity Protection feature prevents changes to several core parts of OS X, including most of /usr/, even by root. How can I still add executable files to my path? Local customizations, such as what you’re doing, belong in /usr/local instead. The path /usr/local/bin doesn’t exist … Read more
Did you try brew link –overwrite python?
Yes, you can! In lieu of a symlink (which won’t work on Windows), create a stub document that has nothing in it but a .. include:: directive. I ran into this trying to link to a README file that was in the top of the source tree. I put the following in a file called … Read more
⸻⸻ Short answer ⸻⸻ Define environment variable: CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict As pointed out by mwm you may also have to go to the settings or to run bash as Administrator. See the Notes section. ⸻⸻ Long answer ⸻⸻ Default Cygwin symlinks are just regular files By default Cygwin creates text files as workaround for Windows symlink flaw. … Read more
NTFS file system has junction points, I think you may use them instead, You can use python win32 API module for that e.g. import win32file win32file.CreateSymbolicLink(fileSrc, fileTarget, 1) If you do not want to rely on win32API module, you can always use ctypes and directly call CreateSymbolicLink win32 API e.g. import ctypes kdll = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary(“kernel32.dll”) … Read more
What I did to add to get the files within a symlink into Git (I didn’t use a symlink but): sudo mount –bind SOURCEDIRECTORY TARGETDIRECTORY Do this command in the Git-managed directory. TARGETDIRECTORY has to be created before the SOURCEDIRECTORY is mounted into it. It works fine on Linux, but not on OS X! That trick … Read more
Underneath the file system, files are represented by inodes. (Or is it multiple inodes? Not sure.) A file in the file system is basically a link to an inode. A hard link, then, just creates another file with a link to the same underlying inode. When you delete a file, it removes one link to … Read more
I was asking this exact same question a while back (not here, just in general), and ended up coming up with a very similar solution to OP’s proposition. I’ll post the solution I ended up using. But first I’ll provide direct answers to OP’s 3 questions: Q: “What, if any, downsides do you see to … Read more