[issue29250] islink and stat follow_symlinks are inconsistent on Windows

Change by Eryk Sun : -- dependencies: -os.walk always follows Windows junctions resolution: -> out of date stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue29250] islink and stat follow_symlinks are inconsistent on Windows

Changes by Eryk Sun : -- dependencies: +os.walk always follows Windows junctions ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29250] islink and stat follow_symlinks are inconsistent on Windows

New submission from Eryk Sun: win32_xstat_impl in Modules/posixmodule.c doesn't check the value of reparse_tag to limit traversal to only tags that are considered links. So we have cases in which os.path.islink returns False (e.g. junctions, pending the resolution of issue 23407), but os.stat