On 6/19/2013 20:11, Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
> 
>> Call me naive, but why not create the link to non-existent ... thing (which
>> should possible, just choose file or directory; it doesn't matter because
>> its not there)... then when the actual thing is created, change the link to
>> conform to the new filesystem state?
> 

So how exactly do you find out where the symlink that needs correction
was written to? What if the app create a symlink and then check if the
target exists before doing something?

>> You can keep track as the symlink info is contained in the information
>> retrieved by GetFileAttributesEx.
> 
>> This setup might require bookkeeping though, not entirely well-versed in
>> this stuff.
> 

NTFS streams in directory metadata?

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