Re: Multiple shared libraries with a single spec

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota@adarose.com>]

Pascal Obry wrote:
> Not only that. AFAIK the Win32 API does not support the softlinks. Only
> some "tricks" have been done on the Windows Explorer to be able to use
> them... So softlinks on Windows are pretty useless to me.
> 
> Pascal.

Windows does support soft links through "junctions". What is more 
problematic is the way Win32 handles hard links, i.e. links created by 
the Win32 API function CreateHardLink. According to MS, changes made to 
the file through one link would not be reflected in the directory 
entries for the other links. See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/hard_links_and_junctions.asp

Several U.S. Government agencies have mandates for POSIX-compliant 
operating systems. MS made Windows NT and its successors POSIX-compliant 
  so that these OS's would meet these mandates, but they did not go 
beyond meeting the bare minimal requirements for POSIX. As often noted, 
the Windows POSIX functionality is pretty bad. The Cygwin emulation of 
Unix under Windows ignores a lot of the official Win32 POSIX facilities.

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