In msg117834 on bpo-8879 it was noticed that os.lstat and os.stat don't set st_nlink on Windows, which is causing the patch on that issue to fail test_tarfile.

Attached is a stripped down version of the patch Hirokazu Yamamoto proposed on bpo-8879, containing just the os.*stat changes. As stated in that message, the patch is a quick hack to get test_os and test_tarfile working, so it could use review.

Overall I think this looks like a reasonable restructuring, and it works in a few manual tests of existing hardlinks on my system. Until bpo-8879 goes in, we can't really add tests for this.

Hirokazu, do you want to commit this since you came up with it?

There are some questions.

1. About my patch, I noticed it removed following code.
   Isn't this needed? I like clean code, but I don't want to
   break anything.

    /* Get WIN32_FIND_DATA structure for the path to determine if
       it is a symlink */
    if(info.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT) {
        find_data_handle = FindFirstFileA(path, &find_data);
        if(find_data_handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
            if(find_data.dwReserved0 == IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK) {
                /* first clear the S_IFMT bits */
                result->st_mode ^= (result->st_mode & 0170000);
                /* now set the bits that make this a symlink */
                result->st_mode |= 0120000;
            }
            FindClose(find_data_handle);
        }
    }


    /* Set S_IFEXEC if it is an .exe, .bat, ... */
    dot = strrchr(path, '.');
    if (dot) {
        if (stricmp(dot, ".bat") == 0 || stricmp(dot, ".cmd") == 0 ||
            stricmp(dot, ".exe") == 0 || stricmp(dot, ".com") == 0)
            result->st_mode |= 0111;
    }

2. About current behavior. when os.stat() is used for junction
   (reparse point, but not simlink), returned information is
   about junction on XP or earlier, but about target folder on
   Vista or above. Is this intended bahavior?

Thank you.

P.S. Thank you for acceptance. I really wanted to commit
that code!

Jason, any idea on #2?

I'm unsure. I think when I addressed the issue, I was only concerned with symlinks. The Vista behavior sounds correct to me, so it may be that XP was left with the legacy behavior as it doesn't have native symlink support. It sounds as if the behavior on XP should be modified to follow the same technique as in Vista. I don't know when I'll have a moment to look at it in depth, but I'll try to in the next week or two.

How about this patch?

• st_nlink support for stat()/lstat().
• lstat() for junction read attributes of junction not target.
• stat() for symlink of system locked file (ie: c:/pagefile.sys)
  should read attributes from target locked file not of symlink
  even via FindFirstFile. (I cannot test this, sorry)

I hope other behavior was not changed by this patch.

... I noticed I can test this via buildbot...
Probably I'll try this.

I'll also give it a run on my Windows machines but won't be able to until tomorrow morning (~1300 UTC).

I noticed stat() won't set S_IEXEC in stat()
with my patch (py3k_posixpath_v1.patch). :-(

I replaced my patch (almost reverted stat() part)
I think st_nlink will be set via stat()/lstat(), at least.

I created test branch "branches/py3k-stat-on-windows" and
committed the new patch in r85789. This achieves msg119108.
I tested this on Windows7 buildbot where symlink support
exists, it seems working correct.
http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20Windows7%203.x/builds/1840

Works for me. I think it should be ok to commit.

I found Win32 FileID API. With this library, it seems
we can use GetFileInformationByHandleEx before Vista.
We can get real file name and hard link count from handle.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1DECC547-AB00-4963-A360-E4130EC079B8&displaylang=en

I don't have a patch, but maybe it is worth to implement it.

I'm not sure how that would work in terms of redistributing, and how we'd handle it within our own build process. This close to the beta I'm -1 on adding that API.

Thank you for reply. Could you commit my last patch
instead of me? I cannot commit files for a while.

Committed to py3k in r86727.

I think this should be backported to the maintenance branches, but not until after the upcoming point releases. Although those branches won't have the ability to create hard links, they should have the ability to view information about existing links on the system (or if they create them via ctypes/pywin32). Since those branches won't be able to explicitly test this, I think it makes sense to let this bake for a while on py3k.

Thank you for commit!

This code has changed a lot since originally being committed, so I'll handle backporting in bpo-12084 which has the latest changes.