2015-02-19 9:50 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

>
> That said, I'm not sure I see any important use cases for adding this
> functionality, so perhaps I'm missing something.
>

At the moment, dired doesn't display them as pointing to somewhere.
I thought that it would be nice to know that some directory is actually a
junction.
It seemed to me that getting this information wasn't very different from
what is
done for symlinks.
Maybe I should have started by saying that.
OTOH, the user might also want to be able to fully handle them from dired.

Fabrice