bug#57536: 28.1; filenotify problems on macOS with symbolic links to directories

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Eli,

>>> I've pushed the changes for inotify and the remote inotifywait. There's
>>> also a new testcase file-notify-test11-symlinks. Do you mind to check it
>>> on w32?
>>
>> I don't think I can: I have XP here, where symlinks aren't supported.
>>
>> Would someone else please see if the new test works on MS-Windows?
>
> Hmm. Somewhere, I have a Windows 10 VM lying around. Perhaps I can
> convince it to support symlinks in Emacs, and test then.

Well, the test fails with

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Test file-notify-test11-symlinks condition:
    (file-error "Making symbolic link" "Operation not permitted" 
"c:/Users/albinus/AppData/Local/Temp/file-notify-testQ4fWLh/file-notify-testoFYuvn"
 
"c:/Users/albinus/AppData/Local/Temp/file-notify-testQ4fWLh/file-notify-testLaRL78")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So a simple `make-symbolic-link' doesn't seem to work on MS
Windows. What shall I do instead?

Best regards, Michael.