Feature request: linkd

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I find that 'linkd' is a good tool, unfortunately, it is a resource
kit tool. and not available on XPe components base.

For legal or licence issue, I can not use it in XPe and I am lazy
to ask our company's legal department to let me use
sysinternal's equivalent tool.

so if MS can be kind to let this small tool (12K) go to component
base, it would be great.

No, fsutil or mountvol can not replace linkd.

thanks for taking this into account

Zirong Wang
 
Look at Sysinternal's Junction utility. It's freeware and the source for it
is available as well.

KS

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hi K S,
thank for take care of my post, but if you read
my original post, I mentioned that due to my company's
legal department's fear, I don't want to use the sysinternqal's
utility.

so I re-iterate my request, and why such a handy tool is not
provided, especially for us, embedded community.

Zirong
 
Zirong,

You missed the point.
Sysinternal's Junction is distributed with source code. You should not have problems using it legally.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/JunctionSource.zip

After all it is going to be very easy to create a similar app. Search MSDN for FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT (CreateFile flag) and
FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT (FS IOCTL for DeviceIoControl).

=========
Regards,
KM

PS. There is lots of tools that are not provided with XP/XPe. This is why you have sometimes to do some development on XPe :-)
 
Zirong,

I understand your concerns. Personally I'd love to see technical and legal flexibility in distributing Resource Kit tools with XPe
images.

Feel free to ask for the new feature from XPe Product team directly:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/feedback/feedxp

=========
Regards,
KM

PS. Be aware that there is some technical tricks that will allow you to use ResKit tools at run time but not have legal issues with
it.
E.g., if you purchase one copy of the ResKit, you can use its tools directly on device for admin purposes. In other words, you can
do all sort of setup and managements with the tools on the devices during deployment but then just have to make sure to delete the
tools there.
As long as you don't have the tool binaries on the device in the field, you are good to go.
Konstantin,
thank you for taking time to answer.

My company has a policy that requests me to justify all used free software, and I
have had been fighting to get authorizations, am too tired, lazy, bored to fight again.

yes, I know I can do it myself the linkd, but once more, too lazy to
1. develop
2. create the build infrastructure (we use mks and makefiles)
3. integrate to our source conf management (not CVS, not RCS, not ,,, but)

sigh, with 200MB of my system, I can not even do something like
'ln -s dir1 dir3' as can do another system that would have 10 times less footprint

when comes to our proper application, I admit we have to develop it. otherwise why
pay 1000/year euros just to have MSDN and Visual Studio?

while things like 'linkd' is, IMHO, a basic brick for a OS.

for your info, for my current work's need, I can live just with mountvol a partition to a
folder. my request is for the future, for other developpers of the community. if MS
can understand my request.

You may ask me why not switch to other OS, its due to legacy, it is not so simple to
port 1 millions lines of code, especially with so many MS specific stuffs used. but we
are approaching ... and one day, ha ha. ok, this will depends on the clearvoyance of my bosses
and works of colleagues, for me, I will be saying bye bye XPe in few time.

Zirong

KM said:
Zirong,

You missed the point.
Sysinternal's Junction is distributed with source code. You should not have problems using it legally.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/JunctionSource.zip

After all it is going to be very easy to create a similar app. Search MSDN for FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT (CreateFile flag) and
FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT (FS IOCTL for DeviceIoControl).

=========
Regards,
KM

PS. There is lots of tools that are not provided with XP/XPe. This is why you have sometimes to do some development on XPe :-)
hi K S,
thank for take care of my post, but if you read
my original post, I mentioned that due to my company's
legal department's fear, I don't want to use the sysinternqal's
utility.

so I re-iterate my request, and why such a handy tool is not
provided, especially for us, embedded community.

Zirong

K S [MS] wrote:
Look at Sysinternal's Junction utility. It's freeware and the source for it is available as well.

KS

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.


:


sorry, replied in the wrong place.

KS

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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.


:


Please apply the resolution mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909889

KS

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights
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Konstantin,
thank you for taking time to answer.

My company has a policy that requests me to justify all used free software,
and I
have had been fighting to get authorizations, am too tired, lazy, bored to
fight again.

yes, I know I can do it myself the linkd, but once more, too lazy to
1. develop
2. create the build infrastructure (we use mks and makefiles)
3. integrate to our source conf management (not CVS, not RCS, not ,,, but)

sigh, with 200MB of my system, I can not even do something like
'ln -s dir1 dir3' as can do another system that would have 10 times less
footprint

when comes to our proper application, I admit we have to develop it.
otherwise why
pay 1000/year euros just to have MSDN and Visual Studio?

while things like 'linkd' is, IMHO, a basic brick for a OS.

for your info, for my current work's need, I can live just with mountvol a
partition to a
folder. my request is for the future, for other developpers of the
community. if MS
can understand my request.

You may ask me why not switch to other OS, its due to legacy, it is not so
simple to
port 1 millions lines of code, especially with so many MS specific stuffs
used. but we
are approaching ... and one day, ha ha. ok, this will depends on the
clearvoyance of my bosses
and works of colleagues, for me, I will be saying bye bye XPe in few time.

Zirong
 
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