[Bug 50770] Unable to create symlinks to files in a nonexistent directory

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50770

--- Comment #8 from Erich E. Hoover <erich.e.hoover at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Hans Leidekker from comment #7)
> ...
> Right, but this also means that if you report Unix symlinks as NT symlinks
> you don't know what type they are when the target doesn't exist.

That's correct, right now I'm treating dangling unix symlinks as files:
https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/blob/3790a7051055e36ef8112c1b0b5e111e0ee7a0ab/patches/ntdll-Junction_Points/0035-ntdll-Treat-undecoded-unix-symlinks-as-NT-symlinks.patch#L91

However, for symlinks an application didn't create itself they have to check
whether they're a file or a directory before deleting them (so as long as we
treat them consistently on our end then this will work correctly).  You only
run into problems with file/directory symlinks when an application creates them
a certain way and assumes they stayed that way (doesn't check what type they
are before deleting).

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