Re: Re : [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink

[Jamie Lokier]

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> > Windows has a concept of shortcuts (.lnk files).  Cygwin's ln
> > creates a shortcut to simulate a symbolic link.  MSYS implements
> > 'ln -s' by doing a file copy.  I don't think it works for
> > directories.
> > 
>
> For directories, you have NTFS junctions. 'Linked' directories
> appear as actual directories in the filesystem.

Windows and NTFS actually have several kinds of link types, resembling
symbolic and hard links, apart from .LNK files and junctions.  They
kept adding more with each version of Windows.

But I doubt if simply losing 'qemu.exe' will cause any great tragedy
for Windows users.

-- Jamie