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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 11:27:34 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: What symlink value should |MRxCreate()| return on |STATUS_REPARSE|
 to redirect to another DOS drive or UNC path ?
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:

> Hi!
>
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>
> [Slightly offtopic, but I am banging my head against this problem most
> of the day]
> What symlink value should |MRxCreate()| return on |STATUS_REPARSE| to
> redirect to another DOS drive or UNC path ? I tried something like
> "L:\foo", but somehow the Win10 kernel just appends that to the base
> of the filesystem mount point, resulting in a totally wrong path...

Not knowing anything about that in particular, have you tried
paths of the form L"\??\L:\foo"?  Though perhaps at that level they should
point to the volume path instead of a drive letter?  I think UNC looks
like L"\??\UNC\server\share\..." in NT paths...

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