Reviewed-by me Very good. On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:02 PM Steve French via samba-technical <samba-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_ tags originally were used by WSL but they > are preferred by the Linux client in some cases since, unlike > the NFS reparse tag (or EAs), they don't require an extra query > to determine which type of special file they represent. > > Add support for readdir to recognize special file types of > FIFO, SOCKET, CHAR, BLOCK and SYMLINK. This can be tested > by creating these special files in WSL Linux and then > sharing that location on the Windows server and mounting > to the Windows server to access them. > > Prior to this patch all of the special files would show up > as being of type 'file' but with this patch they can be seen > with the correct file type as can be seen below: > > brwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0, 0 Oct 21 17:10 block > crwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0, 0 Oct 21 17:46 char > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 21 18:27 dir > prwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 21 16:21 fifo > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 21 15:48 file > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 21 15:52 symlink-to-file > > TODO: go through all documented reparse tags to see if we can > reasonably map some of them to directories vs. files vs. symlinks > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve
