git-annex on Windows

[Ian Freeman]

FYI, symlinks exist in Windows since ntfs 3.0 under the name of
"junctions", though only for directory targets.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 11:45 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Alternatively, windows versions of these functions could be found,
> which are all the ones that need POSIX, I think. A fair amount of this,
> the stuff to do with signals and users, could be empty stubs in windows.
> The file manipulation, particularly symlinks, would probably be the main
> challenge.
> 
> addSignal
> blockSignals
> changeWorkingDirectory
> createLink
> createSymbolicLink
> emptySignalSet
> executeFile
> fileMode
> fileSize
> forkProcess
> getAnyProcessStatus
> getEffectiveUserID
> getEnvDefault
> getFileStatus
> getProcessID
> getProcessStatus
> getSignalMask
> getSymbolicLinkStatus
> getUserEntryForID
> getUserEntryForName
> groupWriteMode
> homeDirectory
> installHandler
> intersectFileModes
> isRegularFile
> isSymbolicLink
> modificationTime
> otherWriteMode
> ownerWriteMode
> readSymbolicLink
> setEnv
> setFileMode
> setSignalMask
> sigCHLD
> sigINT
> unionFileModes
> 
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