[PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 22 22:54, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 22.03.2021 um 16:22 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > One of those under-documented reparse point types is the WSL symbolic
> > link, which you will notice are supported in Cygwin, removing quite some
> > sway from your argument...
> 
> I notice no such thing right now, running the currently available release
> version 3.1.7:
> 
> stat: cannot stat '//wsl$/Debian/home/hbbro/link_to_a': Input/output error

What type of WSL symlink is that?  Cygwin reads WSL 1 symlinks(*) and
creates them by default in symlink(2) cals since Cygwin 3.1.5.

(*) IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK 0xa000001d


Corinna