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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] How to recognize symlinks in WIN32?

From: Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
To: David Macek <david dot macek dot 0 at gmail dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:53:22 -0800
Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] How to recognize symlinks in WIN32?
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David Macek wrote:

I assume you could detect them using cygwin *stat calls. Maybe by compiling against cygwin headers and cygwin1.dll, or maybe by extracting the relevant code from cygwin sources (you'd have to check the relevant licenses).

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