Subject: Re: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:47:14 -0400

> From: Andy Moreton <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:52:59 +0100
> 
> On Windows it is useful to be able to run Cygwin ls as a program
> to see Cygwin's symlinks and permissions.

There should be no problem to support Cygwin symlinks in native w32
code that implements `stat'.  Patches welcome.