problems with soft links on Windows

Hi,

Windows supports soft links as you may know. Those are different than
the shortcut files. But they only work on NTFS.

When using svn on such a softlink, it doesn't work.

* create a softlink like this:
   mklink /D c:\dirsoftlink c:\workingcopy
* svn info c:\dirsoftlink
   svn: 'c:\' is not a working copy
   svn: Can't open file 'c:\.svn\entries': (error message in OS language)

This only happens with commands that expect a folder. Commands that can
work on files (usually) work like 'svn st'.

The problem is in libsvn_subr/io.c, the function
map_apr_finfo_to_node_kind() assumes for a filetype of APR_LNK that it's
in fact a file, but such softlinks are not files but point to a folder.

Is there a reason that links are assumed to be files?

Or is there a way to determine if the link points to a file or a folder?

Stefan

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