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Corinna Vinschen writes
> Not quite.  Directory junctions appear as symlinks.  Volume junctions
> are treated as simple directories since they are for all practically
> purposes the same as Unix mount points.

But I still see several issues at least with directory junctions.
1. When I use junction.exe to make a junction with a regular file, the
junction shows up as a regular file under cygwin. When I make a junction to
a directory, the junction shows up as a directory. In particular, I don't
see symlinks in either case.

2. Shouldn't we have a way of identify and/or differentiating junctions from
their targets. For example, cygwin (appropriately) doesn't allow you to
remove junctions using 'rm' (either files or directories). But if I am
writing code to manipulate files, I would like to be able to identify
junctions pro-actively rather than retroactively by the fact that I can't
remove them.

3. Moving a junction, moves the target file. And leaves the junction itself
'unlinked'. I'm not sure this is the logical behavior expected, particularly
if it is supposed to act like a symlink. Because with symlinks, 'mv' moves
the link not the target.

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