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os: Windows: os.Stat() failed for junctions #9190

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by KoRoN.KaoriYa:

Target version: go1.4rc2.windows-amd64


Steps to reproduce:

1. make a junction: mklink /j C:\junction C:\Windows
2. apply os.Stat() to that junction: os.Stat(`C:\junction`)


What happened?:

os.Stat() returns an error always.


What should have happened instead?

Return valid os.FileInfo without any errors.


Please provide any additional information below.

For junctions, file attribute are reported as REPARSE_POINT (ModeSymLink).
But its ReparseTag is MOUNTPOINT, not SYMLINK.
(see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc232007.aspx)
It makes syscall.Readlink() failed, so os.Stat() is failed too.

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