https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108350

--- Comment #17 from Bill Zissimopoulos <gnu.org at billz dot fastmail.fm> ---
(In reply to niXman from comment #15)
> > There is no way to resolve a hardlink to a "real" path, all hardlinked 
> > paths are "real".
> 
> according to this link:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10260676/programmatically-finding-the-
> target-of-a-windows-hard-link
> 
> it seems hardlinks should be resolved too. or I'm wrong?

It is possible on Windows to enumerate all hard links using FindFirstFileNameW
/ FindNextFileNameW. But conceptually at least all hard links are equal to each
other, even if on some file systems a particular hard link is "more equal" than
the others. So IMO hard link resolution makes little sense.

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