WSL symbolic links

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 26.03.2020 um 12:00 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Mar 26 10:00, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> A symbolic link created with WSL is neither interpreted in cygwin nor can it
>> be deleted:
>>> touch file
>>> wsl ln -s file link
>>> wsl ls -l link
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 towo     towo             1 Mar 26 08:56 link -> file
>>> ls -l link
>> -rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Mar 26 00:00 link
> What kind of file are they in the real world?  Reparse points?  If so,
> what content do they have?  I attached a Q&D source from my vault
> of old test apps to check on reparse point content.  Please compile with
>
>    gcc -g ../src/rd-reparse.c -o rd-reparse -lntdll
>
> It takes a single native NT path as parameter, kind of like this:
>
>    ./rd-reparse '\??\C:\cygwin64\home\corinna\link'
output is:
ReparseTag:           0xa000001d
ReparseDataLength:             8
Reserved:                      0
02 00 00 00 66 69 6c 65
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
>
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