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On 10 Feb 2003 08:21:25 +0000, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:

> The consensus (I think) is to back out the change that causes that and
> live with the previous problem, which occurs under a much more
> specific set of circumstances.

Yes.

Moreover, filename handling in Windows should be reworked anyway. Is no
longer true that Windows doesn't support hard links and symlinks, and
currently `w32-get-long-file-name' knows nothing about it.


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