[Bug 50804] LTSpice XVII will not start

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50804

--- Comment #40 from Erich E. Hoover <erich.e.hoover at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #39)
> (In reply to Erich E. Hoover from comment #38)
> > Yup, that's what I'll do - the thing that will get tricky is that when
> > shell32 gets converted to PE that we'll need a way to properly convey the
> > paths.  IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK works with straight-up unix paths (what we
> > use right now), I assume that when this is converted to PE that we'll want
> > to work with NT paths (though maybe we work with the "\\??\\unix" prefix
> > when that happens?).
> 
> shell32 should probably use \??\unix paths in general (or even straight up
> "/foo/bar" paths where possible, which ntdll converts to \??\unix/foo/bar).
> As for reparse points, I'm not sure whether Unix paths or NT paths makes
> more sense for IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK, probably the answer is 'whatever
> is easier'.

On Windows IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK is a normal unix path (prefixed by '/mnt'
because of the way WSL is set up), so if shell32 is reworked to use
\??\unix/foo/bar then it's pretty easy for us to strip "\??\unix" before
passing the path to FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT.

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