Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.9824.1207116435.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Yang <fz15@HPC.MsState.Edu>
> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:54:35 -0500
> > 
> > Is there any patch around to let the windows emacs understand UNIX
> > symbolic links?
> 
> Not that I know of, and neither can I imagine how an Emacs patch could
> cure a malady of the operating system: for symlinks to work on
> Windows, the Windows filesystem needs to do something sensible with
> symlinks, because even if the symlink is on a Unix disk, Emacs
> accesses it through Windows file I/O APIs, and those simply don't
> support symlinks.

Did you forget that he said he's using TRAMP, not the Windows filesystem 
API?

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