[Bug 59738] GetFinalPathNameByHandleW returns unresolved symbolic link path instead of final resolved path

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59738

--- Comment #13 from Zeb Figura <[e-mail]> ---
(In reply to BugSeeker from comment #9)
> One reason is portability expectations from cross-platform libraries.
>
> Code using std::filesystem typically does not distinguish between “Windows
> symlink” and “host filesystem symlink”; it just expects canonicalization
> APIs to behave consistently for the filesystem the process is actually
> running on.

A cross-platform library targeting win32 would use NT symlinks. It wouldn't use
"host" Unix symlinks, because it has no way to do so.

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