[TYPO3] 'Symlinking' on Windows to reduce eAccelerator mem load?

[Wes Currier]

http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-english/2005-March/002358.html

scroll to the bottom of the post to see links which provide symlink
capabilities on windows platforms.

wes currier

Ryan Hayle wrote:
> Joerg Wagner - DigiLog multimedia wrote:
>> Hello world!
>>
>> Situation:
>> Several Typo3 installations in different Virtual Hosts on a WAMP system.
>> eAccelerator for PHP is installed.
>>
>> Task:
>> Join the identical source directories of all Typo3 installations so
>> that eAccelerator caches them all only once (and thus preserves shared
>> memory).
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to do this? I guess on *nix this would be done by
>> symlinking. There is actually a similar method on Windows called
>> junctions, but I am quite sure that these are so transparent to
>> eAccelerator that it will treat them as different paths and will not
>> recognize that they lead to the same source directory.
>>
>> Any ideas are very welcome!
> 
> Um...switch to a real OS?  Seriously, the idea of running either Apache
> or PHP on a broken Windows system for -production- is a little scary.  I
> know people do it for development, which is fine (if not entirely
> frustrating), but for an actual server it is just crazy.  If you can't
> change it, then you have my sympathy.
> 
> In any case, like you said Windows XP does support their messed up
> version of "symlinks" abd you're also right that eAccelerator will no
> doubt not recognize them.  I think you would have to hack eAccelerator
> to identify these "junctions."
> 
> Ryan