Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

Hi Johannes, I agree on the usefulness to the user of showing appexec target executable as symlink target. But I am uncertain about the effect on code. One example: Any app that is able to archive/copy posix symlinks will convert the appexec to a symlink and silently drop the appexec data. W

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

Hi Joe, On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Joe Lowe wrote: > I am skeptical about this patch (part 1), interposing appexec reparse point > data as symlinks for cygwin applications. > > The appexec reparse point data is essentially an extended attribute holding > data that is used by CreateProcess(), more like