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Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files
On 8/26/16, 11:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 25 19:04, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote:
>>- The first case is during the processing of NtCreateFile (without the
>> FILE_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT flag set).
>
>This case doesn't matter to us. Cygwin always opens the file with
>FILE_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT set...
>
>> - The second case is through direct manipulation of the reparse point
>> using FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT, FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT and
>> FSCTL_DELETE_REPARSE_POINT.
>>
>> Let us consider the expected behavior of an NFS_SPECFILE_LNK reparse
>>point
>> (this is speculation) during NtCreateFile:
>>
>> - On NTFS prior to Win8:
>> - STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED
>
>...so this shouldn't happen to us, right?
I think so.
I will continue with the implementation/testing of reparse points and
report back when I have more.
Bill