https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50586
--- Comment #12 from Erich E. Hoover erich.e.hoover@gmail.com --- (In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #11)
(In reply to Erich E. Hoover from comment #10)
... Are you talking about applications that look for files based on inode? We could conceivably report the inode of the symlink in the case of a transparent symlink like this (and this is a feature that wouldn't be too hard to add in the future).
I'm not immediately sure it's the only problem, but it does come to mind as a concern. Note that the above solution won't work for directory symlinks.
Yeah, I'm not sure what we could possibly do to properly support a cross-device directory unix symlink if someone's searching the disk by inode. If we treated them as NT symlinks then any application doing this is _supposed_ to use GetVolumePathName to search the correct volume.