[Bug 50036] Remaining issues in Bugs in ntdll-Junction_Points in staging

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50036

--- Comment #2 from Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> ---
(In reply to Erich E. Hoover from comment #1)
> If I may ask, what are you using symlinks for?  (I want them to eventually
> reduce the space consumed by the prefix, but getting them upstream has been
> a challenge)

My usecase, admittedly probably pretty nontypical, is that I'm working on
getting the libc++ testsuite for the C++17 std::filesystem module to work with
MSVC's STL, as a preparatory step for trying to implement std::filesystem in
libc++ for windows targets. (Previously, both libc++'s implementation and tests
of this part were very much unix-only.) I'm not much of a windows user myself
and mostly cross compile, so being able to do most of the testing with wine
makes the work much more convenient.

So far, mostly everything exercised by the testsuite works the same in wine,
but there's a bunch of tests for symlinks (some entirely disabled, and some
that work on native windows but not on wine). I'm not sure if there's other
issues on the wine side still, but these two issues are the ones that I've so
far pinpointed on the wine side.

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