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linking directroies btw windows and unix
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 linking directroies btw windows and unix - Dec. 13, '02, 2:34:49 PM
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turtle_wi
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Is there a way when in a windows application to use the unix directory path structure.
I know you can link a unix path to a windows directory with the ln command.
But I have code which is maintained both on UNIX & W2K and currently uses the UNIX directory path structure. I would rather keep it one way to avoid problems going forward from switching back and forth.
Thanks.
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RE: linking directroies btw windows and unix - Dec. 13, '02, 2:54:19 PM
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Rodney
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If you are using Interix (from SFU 3.0), which is a Unix environment, on W2K then pathnames and everything else happens just the same way as on other Unix boxes.
If you are making a Win32 binary then it' s going to depend on what sort of paths you have. References to " /etc" will just not work the same way (Windows uses a multi-rooted FS).
The other thing is that with ' ln' hard links are hard links. It' s at the file system level and both Win32 and Interix use this well. With ln and soft links Interix will treat them correctly and Win32 won' t know what to do with them (for a local disk, an NFS mount is different).
For this application have you conditionalised the code to do output (for example) one way with Unix and a different way with Win32?
If you use Interix you can get the code down to a single source base that is portable enough to build the same on all Unix platforms (including Interix on W2K) and behave the same on all.
- Rodney
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