Create cross platform symlinks about suckit HOT 10 OPEN

destination will always be a directory, right?

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destination will always be a directory, right?

No, a file

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Hm to be honest I am not really sure I get why you need to create symlinks at all but assuming it's always for a file, I can do that with windows::os::fs::symlink_file

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Hm to be honest I am not really sure I get why you need to create symlinks at all but

Sometime we discover a link wich is a pdf (eg. test.org/pdf/test.pdf). So a page wich contain a link to this file will replace every test.org/pdf/test.pdf by test_org_pdf_test_pdf. But the real name of this pdf (test.pdf) is only found when actualy processing the url (test.org/pdf/test.pdf). At this point we save the pdf to it's real filename and create a symlink between test.pdf and test_org_pdf_test_pdf

I can do that with windows::os::fs::symlink_file

Should be this one indeed

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If you know of a url that needs this I can try to do it. Is that the only reason why it doesn't work in windows?

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We think it's the only reason but haven't tried. There might be more to it. If you have a windows build available, feel free to try. I'll add it to the CI as well

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I have a vm I can use but from what I understand it doesn't happen with every page you try to download, right?

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True, symlinks aren't always created. The code calling disk::symlink() is here

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I know, I am asking if you already know of a page that requires symlinks so I can easily test it

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Oh my bad, sorry about the confusion. Any page downloading PDFs basically, so a page like https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3368274 is good.

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