WSL symbolic links

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Brian Inglis!

>>
>> Thanks!  This should already be fixed in the latest developer snapshot
>> after I was finally able to install WSL myself.  See my reply to Thomas
>> in https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/244211.html
>> 
>> All the effects are a result of not opening the reparse point as reparse
>> point, as weird as it sounds at first :)

> Would you consider that test program a reasonable base for something I have
> wished for a while: a program that would classify a file name as a (regular)
> hard link, a Windows directory or file link, a junction, a Windows shortcut, a
> Cygwin symlink, a Unix/WSL symlink, a URL link, and/or tell me where it links to
> etc. Thinking of hacking that plus maybe bits of file, cygpath, readshortcut,
> readlink, lsattr together to display otherwise awkward to access attributes and
> properties.

I'd like to see it as part of "file -h" functionality.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, March 28, 2020 14:52:04

Sorry for my terrible english...