From 8a4f4131aad8d2b176f83df628ee3a8d6e19ba6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 20:05:02 +0000
Subject: mingw: teach dirent about symlinks

Move the `S_IFLNK` detection to `file_attr_to_st_mode()`.

Implement `DT_LNK` detection in dirent.c's `readdir()` function.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 compat/win32.h | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'compat/win32.h')

diff --git a/compat/win32.h b/compat/win32.h
index a97e880757..671bcc81f9 100644
--- a/compat/win32.h
+++ b/compat/win32.h
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@
 #include <windows.h>
 #endif
 
-static inline int file_attr_to_st_mode (DWORD attr)
+static inline int file_attr_to_st_mode (DWORD attr, DWORD tag)
 {
 	int fMode = S_IREAD;
-	if (attr & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
+	if ((attr & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT) && tag == IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK)
+		fMode |= S_IFLNK;
+	else if (attr & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
 		fMode |= S_IFDIR;
 	else
 		fMode |= S_IFREG;
-- 
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