JCL Help:NtfsCreateJunctionPoint
JCL Help: NtfsCreateJunctionPoint Function
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Summary
Creates an NTFS junction point.
Pascal
function NtfsCreateJunctionPoint(const Source: string; const Destination: string): Boolean;
Parameters
| Parameters | Description |
| const Source: string | Fully qualified path of the directory that is to be transformed into a juntion point. This directory must exist and be empty or the function fails. |
| const Destination: string | Fully qualified name of the target directory for the mountpoint. Naturally it must exist but doesn't have to be empty. |
Return Value
If the function succeeds it returns True, otherwise it returns False. Upon failure you can call GetLastError to get a more specific failure description. The most common reason for failure is that either the Source doesn't exist or isn't empty or that the destination directory doesn't exist.
Description
A junction point is similar to a softlink as available in other operating systems such as Linux. In a nutshell it is a directory which links to another directory. As such the junction point itself doesn't contain any data but when accessed redirects to another directory whose contents are accessed. The NtfsCreateJunctionPoint routine transforms a normal, empty directory into a junction point. Junction points are similar to volume mount points except that as opposed to mounting a volume, they 'mount' a directory.
See Also
NtfsDeleteJunctionPoint NtfsGetJunctionPointDestination
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Marcel van Brakel
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