Package: emacs;
Reported by: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 23:23:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Found in version 30.1
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> Subject: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 23:15:59 +0000
When using dired on emacs in Windows, Symlinks are displayed helpfully, with an indication of the target of the symlink. Junction entries are not displayed specially. There is no indication of the target of a Junction. Junctions in Windows are similar to Symbolic Links (symlinks) but slightly different. You can read a comparison here: https://superuser.com/a/1291446/3614 (Why there are both Junctions and symlinks, I do not know) Junctions always use a directory as the target, and it is possible to create a Junction without elevated (Administrator) privileges. So it is sometimes more convenient to use a Junction, instead of a symlink. For example here is the dired output of a test directory. It contains a regular file, a symlink to that regular file, a broken symlink, a regular directory, and a Junction pointing to a different directory. The valid and broken symlinks are displayed helpfully, and dired helpfully uses a different face (dired-broken-symlink) for the broken symlink. dired displays the regular file and regular directory correctly too. But there is nothing that indicates the junction is not a regular directory: c:/Users/dpchi/test: drwx 1 dpchi 0 2025-04-06 15:47 . drwx 1 Administrators 16384 2025-04-06 15:46 .. lrwx 1 Administrators 0 2025-04-06 15:44 broken-symlink.txt -> c:/Users/dpchi/test/non-existent-file.txt -rw- 1 dpchi 148 2023-12-06 15:06 regular-file.txt drwx 1 dpchi 0 2025-04-06 15:47 this-is-a-directory drwx 1 Administrators 32768 2024-12-27 11:30 this-is-a-directory-junction lrwx 1 Administrators 0 2025-04-06 15:44 valid-symlink.txt -> c:/Users/dpchi/test/regular-file.txt In Powershell, I can list the same directory and see the junction and its target. PS C:\Users\dpchi\test> get-childitem Directory: C:\Users\dpchi\test Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 4/6/2025 3:47 PM this-is-a-directory l---- 4/6/2025 3:43 PM this-is-a-directory-junction -> c:\Users\dpchi\elisp-2024 la--- 4/6/2025 3:44 PM 0 broken-symlink.txt -> c:\Users\dpchi\test\non-existent-file.txt -a--- 12/6/2023 3:06 PM 148 regular-file.txt la--- 4/6/2025 3:44 PM 0 valid-symlink.txt -> c:\Users\dpchi\test\regular-file.txt ## Additional Details To create a junction or symlink on Windows you can use these powershell commands: # the following can be done with regular privileges New-Item -Path new-directory-junction -ItemType Junction -Value "c:\path\to\target\directory" # symlinks always point to files, and creating one requires elevated privileges. New-Item -Path valid-symlink.txt -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value "c:\path\to\regular-file.txt" ## Diagnosis I think the code that shows symlinks differently is line 810 in ls-lisp.el (if (stringp file-type) ; is a symbolic link (concat " -> " file-type)) The file-type var is set from file-attribute-type, which is defined in files.el. That gets its information from dired.c (which I am not looking at), which populates a string for (file-attribute-type file-attr) in the case of symbolic link, but does not do the same for Junction. So I think maybe a change in dired.c for Windows might be necessary. ## Expected/Desired behavior: Using dired on Windows, Junction entries show the target of the Junction, similar to how symbolic links are shown. In GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2025-02-23 built on AVALON Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.26100 System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (v10.0.2009.26100.3476) Configured using: 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=aot --without-compress-install --with-tree-sitter CFLAGS=-O2 prefix=/g/rel/install/emacs-30.1' Configured features: ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB (NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available) Important settings: value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Dired by ctime Minor modes in effect: global-git-commit-mode: t magit-auto-revert-mode: t default-text-scale-mode: t server-mode: t recentf-mode: t yas-global-mode: t yas-minor-mode: t icomplete-vertical-mode: t icomplete-mode: t override-global-mode: t global-hl-line-mode: t 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bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:bug#77589; Package emacs.
(Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:11:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Message #8 received at 77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> To: "77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: More information Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:10:33 +0000
From the Win32 File I/O documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/file-attribute-constants
The bit for a Reparse Point, which includes SymbolicLinks as well as Junctions, is:
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT
1024 (0x00000400)
After brief inspection, it seems like dired.c file_attributes is relying on s_ISLNK to determine if the file is a symlink. I am not sure what S_ISLNK does for Windows Junctions or if it even makes sense for a POSIX API to do something special for Windows Junctions.
In my tests the Attributes surfaced at the powershell layer use that REPARSE_POINT bit, whether it is a symlink (file) or a Junction (directory).
PS C:\test> Get-Item -Path regular-file.txt | Select-Object FullName, @{Name='AttributesHex'; Expression={ '0x{0:X}' -f [int]$_.Attributes }} | fl
FullName : C:\test\regular-file.txt
AttributesHex : 0x20
PS C:\test> Get-Item -Path "valid-symlink.txt" | Select-Object FullName, @{Name='AttributesHex'; Expression={ '0x{0:X}' -f [int]$_.Attributes }} | fl
FullName : C:\test\valid-symlink.txt
AttributesHex : 0x420
PS C:\test> Get-Item -Path "this-is-a-directory" | Select-Object FullName, @{Name='AttributesHex'; Expression={ '0x{0:X}' -f [int]$_.Attributes }} | fl
FullName : C:\test\this-is-a-directory
AttributesHex : 0x10
PS C:\test> Get-Item -Path "this-is-a-directory-junction" | Select-Object FullName, @{Name='AttributesHex'; Expression={ '0x{0:X}' -f [int]$_.Attributes }} | fl
FullName : C:\test\this-is-a-directory-junction
AttributesHex : 0x410
bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:bug#77589; Package emacs.
(Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:17:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Message #11 received at 77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> To: "77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Re: More information Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:16:18 +0000
This page discusses an approach to interrogating a file on Windows to determine if it is a Symlink or Junction:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2023-November/254786.html
HANDLE h = ...
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TAG_INFO at;
if (GetFileInformationByHandleEx (h, FileAttributeTagInfo,
&at, sizeof at))
{
if (at.FileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT)
{
/* Check at.ReparseTag:
IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK: WSL symlink
IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK: Windows symlink
IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT: Volume mount point
or directory junction
IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK: App execution alias
Anything else: *shrug*
}
}
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From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> To: "77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Re: More information Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:21:59 +0000
Last one Postgresql recently dealt with this issue as well. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ee219102d2e76d3e7277ac1a7ddda7757737b31b
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> To: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> Cc: 77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#77589: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:39:36 +0300
severity 77589 wishlist
thanks
> From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 23:15:59 +0000
> msip_labels:
>
> When using dired on emacs in Windows, Symlinks are displayed helpfully,
> with an indication of the target of the symlink. Junction entries are
> not displayed specially. There is no indication of the target of a
> Junction.
>
> Junctions in Windows are similar to Symbolic Links
> (symlinks) but slightly different. You can read a comparison here:
> https://superuser.com/a/1291446/3614
> (Why there are both Junctions and symlinks, I do not know)
>
> Junctions always use a directory as the target, and it is possible
> to create a Junction without elevated (Administrator) privileges. So it
> is sometimes more convenient to use a Junction, instead of a symlink.
AFAIK, Junction points are legacy/deprecated kind of symbolic links,
which are restricted wrt symlinks available on modern versions of
MS-Windows: junction points can only link to local directories (and
have security issues). Their only advantage is that they are
available on older Windows versions.
Emacs does support symlinks on MS-Windows, but I don't see a point in
adding complexity to the MS-Windows specific code to support this
deprecated kind of symlinks. It would add complexity, because
junctions are subtly different from symlinks, but the Posix model of
file attributes used by Emacs doesn't allow to distinguish between
them easily, so we'd need some kludges in all kinds of places. For
example, what to do when copying a junction -- create another junction
or a symlink? And how to display that in Dired buffers, given that
the "->" notation is already taken by symlinks, and nothing similar
exists on Posix systems (which Emacs on Windows emulates)? And how to
indicate the fact that a file is a junction point in the output of
file-attributes? Treating junctions as symlinks will cause trouble,
because a junction has restrictions that need to be observed.
So, on balance, I don't think we should add this to Emacs.
> That gets its information from dired.c (which I am not looking at), which
> populates a string for (file-attribute-type file-attr) in the case of symbolic link,
> but does not do the same for Junction. So I think maybe a change in dired.c
> for Windows might be necessary.
The current support for symlink is not in dired.c, it is in w32.c,
where we have our custom implementation of the 'stat' and 'lstat'
functions, which have symlink support built-in.
> This page discusses an approach to interrogating a file on Windows to determine if it is a Symlink or Junction:
>
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2023-November/254786.html
>
> HANDLE h = ...
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TAG_INFO at;
> if (GetFileInformationByHandleEx (h, FileAttributeTagInfo,
> &at, sizeof at))
> {
> if (at.FileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT)
> {
> /* Check at.ReparseTag:
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK: WSL symlink
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK: Windows symlink
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT: Volume mount point
> or directory junction
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK: App execution alias
> Anything else: *shrug*
> }
> }
Thanks, this is well-known, and you will see that we have a similar
code in w32.c in the Emacs source tree.
Bottom line: I don't think we should add this to Emacs. Other
opinions (with rationale) are welcome.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org.
(Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:41:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com>:Message #24 received at 77589-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> To: dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com Cc: 77589-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#77589: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:04:43 +0300
> Cc: 77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:39:36 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>
> severity 77589 wishlist
> thanks
>
> > From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 23:15:59 +0000
> > msip_labels:
> >
> > When using dired on emacs in Windows, Symlinks are displayed helpfully,
> > with an indication of the target of the symlink. Junction entries are
> > not displayed specially. There is no indication of the target of a
> > Junction.
> >
> > Junctions in Windows are similar to Symbolic Links
> > (symlinks) but slightly different. You can read a comparison here:
> > https://superuser.com/a/1291446/3614
> > (Why there are both Junctions and symlinks, I do not know)
> >
> > Junctions always use a directory as the target, and it is possible
> > to create a Junction without elevated (Administrator) privileges. So it
> > is sometimes more convenient to use a Junction, instead of a symlink.
>
> AFAIK, Junction points are legacy/deprecated kind of symbolic links,
> which are restricted wrt symlinks available on modern versions of
> MS-Windows: junction points can only link to local directories (and
> have security issues). Their only advantage is that they are
> available on older Windows versions.
>
> Emacs does support symlinks on MS-Windows, but I don't see a point in
> adding complexity to the MS-Windows specific code to support this
> deprecated kind of symlinks. It would add complexity, because
> junctions are subtly different from symlinks, but the Posix model of
> file attributes used by Emacs doesn't allow to distinguish between
> them easily, so we'd need some kludges in all kinds of places. For
> example, what to do when copying a junction -- create another junction
> or a symlink? And how to display that in Dired buffers, given that
> the "->" notation is already taken by symlinks, and nothing similar
> exists on Posix systems (which Emacs on Windows emulates)? And how to
> indicate the fact that a file is a junction point in the output of
> file-attributes? Treating junctions as symlinks will cause trouble,
> because a junction has restrictions that need to be observed.
>
> So, on balance, I don't think we should add this to Emacs.
>
> > That gets its information from dired.c (which I am not looking at), which
> > populates a string for (file-attribute-type file-attr) in the case of symbolic link,
> > but does not do the same for Junction. So I think maybe a change in dired.c
> > for Windows might be necessary.
>
> The current support for symlink is not in dired.c, it is in w32.c,
> where we have our custom implementation of the 'stat' and 'lstat'
> functions, which have symlink support built-in.
>
> > This page discusses an approach to interrogating a file on Windows to determine if it is a Symlink or Junction:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2023-November/254786.html
> >
> > HANDLE h = ...
> > FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TAG_INFO at;
> > if (GetFileInformationByHandleEx (h, FileAttributeTagInfo,
> > &at, sizeof at))
> > {
> > if (at.FileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT)
> > {
> > /* Check at.ReparseTag:
> > IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK: WSL symlink
> > IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK: Windows symlink
> > IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT: Volume mount point
> > or directory junction
> > IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK: App execution alias
> > Anything else: *shrug*
> > }
> > }
>
> Thanks, this is well-known, and you will see that we have a similar
> code in w32.c in the Emacs source tree.
>
> Bottom line: I don't think we should add this to Emacs. Other
> opinions (with rationale) are welcome.
No further comments, so I'm now closing this bug.
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From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> To: "77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Re: bug#77589: closed (Re: bug#77589: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:59:58 +0000
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Just catching up . Where have you seen that Junctions are being deprecated? I've seen nothing like that. Without a concrete announcement to that effect, I don't think that's a good reasoning for not working on this bug. -DC ________________________________ From: GNU bug Tracking System <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2025 4:05:02 AM To: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> Subject: bug#77589: closed (Re: bug#77589: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially) Your bug report #77589: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org. -- 77589: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdebbugs.gnu.org%2Fcgi%2Fbugreport.cgi%3Fbug%3D77589&data=05%7C02%7C%7C192a67c84f9046c417c108dd84b2322e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638812623067343464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GSVASRwtnOlwQuvjHKPXDlleOoIK0zhpqxEfrZx%2Bp4c%3D&reserved=0<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=77589> GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs <at> gnu.org with problems
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> To: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> Cc: 77589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#77589: closed (Re: bug#77589: 30.1; On Windows, dired does not display Junctions specially) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:22:01 +0300
> From: dino chiesa <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com> > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:59:58 +0000 > > Just catching up . Where have you seen that Junctions are being deprecated? I've seen nothing like that. Just read about it on the Internet. The fact that junction points support just some of the symlink features alone speaks for itself.
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