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You haven't answered the second part - Is it possible (and how) to use shortcuts on filesystems without symlink support on linux?

Mikemk
– Mikemk

2013-09-17 06:17:46 +00:00
Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 6:17
I've edited my answer.

pepoluan
– pepoluan

2013-09-17 10:09:22 +00:00
Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 10:09
It is surely possible to implement “shortcuts” in an application, e.g. the shell. But symlinks are supported by the operating system, meaning no changes to any application have to be made to support symlinks. It's not at all related to having a GUI or not. To be able to compete with symlinks it would have to be implemented in the kernel (e.g. as a module) to be transparent to applications. But what problem would that solve that hasn't been solved already?

Marco
– Marco

2013-09-17 14:45:54 +00:00
Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 14:45
Erm, no. If transparent support for microsoft style links were implemented in Linux, the logic would sit in the filesystem code, not in the kernel. If you really need the capability then have a look at FUSE

symcbean
– symcbean

2016-07-21 22:32:04 +00:00
Commented Jul 21, 2016 at 22:32

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