[New-bugs-announce] [issue37834] readlink on Windows cannot read app exec links

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>:

The IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK was introduced for aliases to installed UWP apps that require activation before they can be executed.

Currently these are in an unusual place as far as Python support goes - stat() fails where lstat() succeeds, but the lstat() result doesn't have the right flags to make is_link() return True.

It's not clear whether we *should* treat these as regular symlinks, given there are a number of practical differences, but since we can enable it I'm going to post a PR anyway.

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components: Windows
messages: 349486
nosy: paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: readlink on Windows cannot read app exec links
versions: Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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