[Bug 12401] New: Support junction points, i.e. DeviceIoCtl( FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT/FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12401

           Summary: Support junction points, i.e.
                    DeviceIoCtl(FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT/FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_PO
                    INT)
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ntdll
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: dank at kegel.com


Junction points are one of Microsoft's answers to symlinks.
Unix symlinks could be mapped into junction points.
This would allow applications (e.g. Picasa) avoid following
symlinks if they wanted to.

Also, the .net 2 installer would be happier in winxp mode if wine supported 
junction points (see bug 10601):
"The .NET 2.0 Framework installer checks if the target volume is NTFS
filesystem
type and then uses the FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT ioctl (used for mount points and
junctions) to create junction points for each registered assembly in Windows
SxS directory to GAC assembly directory (link target). 
Basically the junction point is used to redirect access from one directory to
another."

Tommy Kho posted a patch to add a conformance test for 
getting and setting junction points,
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-March/024956.html
but it was not accepted.


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