Re: [boost] [filesystem] proposal: treat reparse files as regular files

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] proposal: treat reparse files as regular files
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-31 18:39:39

On 30 Jul 2015 at 11:17, Gavin Lambert wrote:

> You should probably make it generic via IsReparseTagNameSurrogate as I 
> mentioned earlier rather than checking for the symlink/dedup tags 
> specifically. 

Actually no - AFIO can only read the target for reparse points it 
knows about.

I committed a fix for this earlier today. It reports reparse points 
with tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT or IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK as 
symlinks. Everything else is reported normally.

Niall

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