Vista To Get Symlinks?

Vista To Get Symlinks? 565

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:36AM from the sounds-like-another-os-i-know dept.

TheRealSlimShady writes "According to a post by Ward Ralston on the Windows server team's weblog, Vista server is to get symlinks as part of the SMB2 protocol." From the post: "In Vista/Longhorn server, the file system (NTFS) will start supporting a new filesystem object (examples of existing filesystem objects are files, folders etc.). This new object is a symbolic link. Think of a symbolic link as a pointer to another file system object (it can be a file, folder, shortcut or another symbolic link)."

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Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

by Skiron ( 735617 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:40AM (#13913693)

innovation from MS.

Innovation! (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:40AM (#13913694)

..and people say MS isn't innovative!

Symbolic links? (Score:3, Funny)

by el_womble ( 779715 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:41AM (#13913696) Homepage

What a fantastic idea! Why didn't you UNIX guys think of that whilst you were eating ambrosia up in your ivory tower eh? ... Oh...

Microsoft 'innovating' once again, and giving the people what the want (10 years after everyone else). Go Redmond!

Allow me to be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)

by Noryungi ( 70322 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:41AM (#13913700) Homepage Journal

Welcome to the 1980s, Microsoft.

(Who was it who said: 'Those who don't know UNIX are condemned to recreate it. Badly.' ?)

OMG (Score:2, Funny)

by Mateito ( 746185 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:41AM (#13913701) Homepage

This is a joke, right?

Obligatory quote (Score:3, Funny)

by OscarBlock ( 861399 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:42AM (#13913703)

Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly." --Henry Spencer

Re:Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:44AM (#13913717)

Yea, they better hurry up and patent it before those unix hippies copy it.

Fantastic! (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:45AM (#13913724)

Symbolic Link and SMB2 - should I also be waiting for ZeldaFS and MegaMon?

I had to check.... (Score:2, Funny)

by kg4czo ( 516374 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:46AM (#13913725)

the date to see if it was April 1st.

Re:Allow me to be the first to say... (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:46AM (#13913728)

Who was it who said: 'Those who don't know UNIX are condemned to recreate it. Badly.' ?)

I know what you mean. Linux certainly is a recreation of UNIX, and a bad one at that.

New strapline? (Score:3, Funny)

by seanellis ( 302682 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:48AM (#13913734) Homepage Journal

Vista - 1980's technology today^H^H^H^H^Hsometime next year.

Re:Fantastic! (Score:1, Funny)

by BladeMelbourne ( 518866 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:56AM (#13913762)

Duke Nukem Forever will run on Windows Vista - when the new DB filesystem becomes available.

MS Motto (Score:5, Funny)

by psiekl ( 310217 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:59AM (#13913768)

We are the leaders, wait for us!

It's worse (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:07AM (#13913794)

"Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to buy Windows." --Anonymous Coward

Re:Duplication... (Score:2, Funny)

by thatshortkid ( 808634 ) * writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:07AM (#13913795)

wow. so the editors must really love every 3rd article, huh?

Oh the horrors (Score:1, Funny)

by gringer ( 252588 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:08AM (#13913802)

No, it's not April 1st, it's halloween. Microsoft are trying to scare us all away from using Windows.

Re:No. (Score:1, Funny)

by Professor_UNIX ( 867045 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:35AM (#13913877)

Maybe someday they'll get really advanced and invent hard links too.

Wait, it gets worse (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:37AM (#13913890)

"Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed BY Windows." --Anonymous Coward

Re:Funny thing is... (Score:4, Funny)

by Keeper ( 56691 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:42AM (#13913914)

No, in two years time everyone will be running around saying that MS copied it from Apple. Then someone else will jump in and say that Apple stole it from Unix. After that, someone else will claim that Apple stole it from Xerox. And I'm sure after further debate someone else will mention that it was originally an idea first postulated by the ancient greeks, before computers were even invented.

Re:Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

by kd3bj ( 733314 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:43AM (#13913919) Homepage

What's next?

Forward slashes?

Text files without ^m's?

Duplication... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:50AM (#13913932)

...is a compliment of the highest form.

Re:Obligatory quote (Score:1, Funny)

by zaguar ( 881743 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:13AM (#13913996)

"A witty saying proves nothing" - Volaire

Re:Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:23AM (#13914028)

all your symbolic links are belong to SCO

Re:Yet more great (Score:3, Funny)

by trezor ( 555230 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:26AM (#13914039) Homepage

Now that would be demanding a little bit much in so short time, wouldn't it?

We will have to wait at least until the avarage workstation has 30GHz dualcore CPUs and at least 10GBs of ram.

Re:Great... but (Score:4, Funny)

by gargleblast ( 683147 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:42AM (#13914108)

Multiple streams are an absurdity. "Ok contestants, repeat after me: 'A file is a variable-length array of bytes.'" Steve Jobs: "A file is two variable-length arrays of bytes." BZZT. "Sorry Steve, thanks for playing." Bill Gates: "A file is N variable-length arrays of bytes." BZZT. "Whoops Bill, that's a directory. Looks like you're out too! Join us next week on 'Who wants to be an architect!'"

Reparse points are more commonly known in the UNIX community as 'mount points.'

Re:Funny thing is... (Score:2, Funny)

by ozmanjusri ( 601766 ) writes: <aussie_bob@hotmail . c om> on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:48AM (#13914141) Journal

And I'm sure after further debate someone else will mention that it was originally an idea first postulated by the ancient greeks, before computers were even invented.

Actually, I think you'll find the differential gear of the Antikythera mechanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism [wikipedia.org] could easily be construed as a symbolic link...

FAT does it too... (Score:5, Funny)

by spiff42 ( 718678 ) writes: <sd@s y m l ink.dk> on Monday October 31, 2005 @09:01AM (#13914202) Homepage

NTFS does support hardlinks
Well. So does FAT, except it is called a crosslink, and aparently scandisk and various disk defragmentation tools do not handle it correctly ;-)
/Spiff

This is rich (Score:3, Funny)

by linforcer ( 923749 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @09:13AM (#13914269)

First Microsoft Shell and now this? Looks like MS Linux [mslinux.org] is nearly becoming a reality!

Re:Yet more great (Score:3, Funny)

by perdelucena ( 455667 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @09:28AM (#13914373) Homepage

What else can we expect from MS, maybe tabs on IE? Oh wait...

Vista escapes the Matrix (Score:3, Funny)

by moojin ( 124799 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @11:09AM (#13915028)

Later on, Vista wakes up. He sees his code-base pierced with dozens of acupuncture-like needles wired to a strange device insert new lines of source code.

*nix Developer 1: He still needs a lot of work.

Vista: What are you doing?

*nix Developer 2: Your source code has atrophied, we're rebuilding them.

Vista: Why do the symbolic links in my file system hurt?

Vista blinks

*nix Developer 2 : You've never used them before.

Vista looks confused

*nix Developer 2 : Rest, Vista, the answers are coming.

Vista passes out again.

Good grief! (Score:3, Funny)

by cortana ( 588495 ) writes: <sam@[ ]ots.org.uk ['rob' in gap]> on Monday October 31, 2005 @12:45PM (#13915826) Homepage

Are Plan 9 users the new Ubuntu users (who were previously the new Gentoo users)? ;)

Re:Vista Will Probably Be BSD-Based (Score:3, Funny)

by moosesocks ( 264553 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @03:41PM (#13917314) Homepage

does this mean that we can finally say that Windows is dying?

Re:Funny thing is... (Score:4, Funny)

by linguae ( 763922 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @04:13PM (#13917560)

Dennis Thompson? I didn't know that Dennis Ritchie [bell-labs.com] and Ken Thompson [bell-labs.com] fused and merged together back in the 60s to become ... Dennis Thompson.

Re:Duplication... (Score:3, Funny)

by Lxy ( 80823 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @04:45PM (#13917843) Journal

So Slashdot doesn't post dupes, they post compliments?

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Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

Innovation! (Score:0, Funny)

Symbolic links? (Score:3, Funny)

Allow me to be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)

OMG (Score:2, Funny)

Obligatory quote (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

Fantastic! (Score:4, Funny)

I had to check.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Allow me to be the first to say... (Score:0, Funny)

New strapline? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Fantastic! (Score:1, Funny)

MS Motto (Score:5, Funny)

It's worse (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Duplication... (Score:2, Funny)

Oh the horrors (Score:1, Funny)

Re:No. (Score:1, Funny)

Wait, it gets worse (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Funny thing is... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

Duplication... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligatory quote (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Yet more great (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yet more great (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Great... but (Score:4, Funny)

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FAT does it too... (Score:5, Funny)

This is rich (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Yet more great (Score:3, Funny)

Vista escapes the Matrix (Score:3, Funny)

Good grief! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Vista Will Probably Be BSD-Based (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Funny thing is... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Duplication... (Score:3, Funny)

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