From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabrice Popineau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs and Windows junctions Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424268636 16171 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2015 14:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:10:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 18 15:10:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5KY-0001Q5-Va for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:10:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5KY-0002q8-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5KS-0002p9-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5KO-0001ma-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5KO-0001lW-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5KB-0001Ew-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from lobsang.supelec.fr ([160.228.100.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from fabrice.popineau by lobsang.supelec.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:09:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 160.228.100.37 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.111 Safari/537.36) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183244 Archived-At: Hi, This question has been asked on Stackexchange: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/6070/hard-and-soft-links-junctions-under- windows How difficult would it be to report junctions as symlinks? I find it desirable and informative. Moreover, all the support seems to be already there. Specifically, it would suffice to handle the case of IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT in src/w32.c/is_symlink() and src/w32.c/readlink() the same way it is done for IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK. Is there any drawback in doing this? Would it be enough? Best regards, Fabrice