RFC: Junction Point/NT Symlink Support

[Jacek Caban]

Hi Eric,

On 3/25/19 6:55 PM, Erich E. Hoover wrote:
> So, I have some questions for the group:
> 1) Does this approach seem reasonable in general?
> 2) Should the information be stored in the access time (correct "ls"
> behavior) or the modification time (correct "tar" behavior)?
> 3) Is there anything else that I'm missing?


I didn't look deep enough at those areas to comment on general idea, but 
for an additional flag, you could also include a magic string in link 
location itself, something like ".///.///actual_target". It would be 
preserved by tar. A simple stat would not be enough to check the flag, 
so I'm not sure how practical that would be.


Jacek