[Bug 12401] 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

--- Comment #23 from Erich Hoover <ehoover at mines.edu> 2012-06-20 13:18:07 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> ...
> That's a problem for patch 1, there you can't clean up the test...
> if RemoveDirectoryW(path); in patch 1 also removes the containing symlink then
> that's ok,
> ...

You can't actually hit that test under Wine until patch 6 exposes junction
point support.

> (In reply to comment #21)
> > ...
> > It seems to me that this technique has the disadvantage that if users relocate
> > their Wine directory that these links would break.  So, do you guys think I
> > should replace "/home/ehoover/.wine/dosdevices/" with the appropriate number of
> > up directory references (../../../../../ in this case).
> 
> That diserves an own patch at the end of the patchset i'd say.

Yeah, this may actually be non-trivial - it appears that wine does not always
work off of the path within the dosdevices folder.

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