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ChrisSD • today at 4:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Windows also has uuids. E.g.:

    \\.\Volume{3558506b-6ae4-11eb-8698-806e6f6e6963}\

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Someone1234 • today at 4:38 PM

Which can be trivially mapped to directories for aliasing. Just like Linux.

Windows NT and UNIX are much more similar than many people realize; Windows NT just has a giant pile of Dos/Win9x compatibility baked on top hiding how great the core kernel design actually is.

I think this article demonstrates that very well.

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