[Bug 50586] NtQueryInformationFile returns STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS on symlinks opened with FILE_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50586

--- Comment #11 from Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Erich E. Hoover from comment #10)
> (In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #9)
> > Note that a symlink can span file systems. It seems possible that a Windows
> > application would be confused about a file residing on a different file
> > system than its containing directory. That's already the case, and maybe not
> > worth worrying about, but if we're going to make a grand final design of how
> > symlinks work it might be worth taking into account...
> 
> Are you talking about applications that look for files based on inode?  We
> could conceivably report the inode of the symlink in the case of a
> transparent symlink like this (and this is a feature that wouldn't be too
> hard to add in the future).

I'm not immediately sure it's the only problem, but it does come to mind as a
concern. Note that the above solution won't work for directory symlinks.

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