Utilize reparse points for symlinks

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 27 18:26:00 GMT 2010


On Sep 27 18:32, Chris January wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:44:58 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> I couldn't find anything either. Perhaps it's in the IFS kit (which
> >> apparently is only available as part of the 600MB Windows Driver Kit
> >> download).
> > 
> > I have the WDK installed, but I didn't find any such database so far.
> 
> The only public 'database', AFAIK, is in ntifs.h. Search for
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_*

Uh, interesting.  Thanks for the hint.  I never noticed that list before.
Reparse points are not overused, apparently.


Corinna

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