On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 9:42 PM Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:27 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think the following is a little mysterious, but it does seem to be >> what people do for this in other projects. It is the documented way >> to detect mount points, and I guess IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT is >> either overloaded also for junctions, or junctions are the same thing >> as mount points. It would be nice to see a Win32 documentation page >> that explicitly said that. > > The wikipedia page on it is actually fairly decent: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_reparse_point. It's not the documentation > of course, but it's easier to read :) The core difference is whether you > mount a whole filesystem (mount point) or just a directory off something > mounted elsehwere (junction). > > And yes, the wikipedia page confirms that junctions also use > IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT.
Thanks for confirming. I ran the Windows patch through pgindent, fixed a small typo, and pushed.
