[Mono-list] Requested feature for System.IO

[Sijmen Mulder]

>I'm missing any functionality in Microsoft's .NET framework regarding 
>junction links. Linux is able to create these hard links for years, but 
>NTFS volumes also support them. You can validate if it is such a hard link 
>with FileAttributes.ReparsePointer. But currently MS doesn't provide any 
>methods but a WIN32API call (see Junctions V1.02 from sysinternals.com).
>
>It would be great if Mono could be better at this point and provide this 
>feature first; I think linux users would miss it very much since it is a 
>"standard feature" for years.

Hi there!

Indeed this would be a nice thing to add.
But I doubt if it would be accepted by the great whats-his-name-again.
It would break compatibility between Mono and the MS runtime even more...

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Sijmen Mulder

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