Cygwin: Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links
When the Windows Store version of Python is installed, so-called "app execution aliases" are put into the `PATH`. These are reparse points under the hood, with an undocumented format. We do know a bit about this format, though, as per the excellent analysis: https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/09/overview-of-windows-execution-aliases.html The first 4 bytes is the reparse tag, in this case it's 0x8000001B which is documented in the Windows SDK as IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a corresponding structure, but with a bit of reverse engineering we can work out the format is as follows: Version: <4 byte integer> Package ID: <NUL Terminated Unicode String> Entry Point: <NUL Terminated Unicode String> Executable: <NUL Terminated Unicode String> Application Type: <NUL Terminated Unicode String> Let's treat them as symbolic links. For example, in this developer's setup, this will result in the following nice output: $ cd $LOCALAPPDATA/Microsoft/WindowsApps/ $ ls -l python3.exe lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 105 Aug 23 2020 python3.exe -> '/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_3.7.2544.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0/python.exe' Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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return res;
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}
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typedef struct _REPARSE_APPEXECLINK_BUFFER
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{
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DWORD ReparseTag;
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WORD ReparseDataLength;
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WORD Reserved;
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struct {
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DWORD Version; /* Take member name with a grain of salt. */
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WCHAR Strings[1]; /* Four serialized, NUL-terminated WCHAR strings:
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- Package ID
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- Entry Point
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- Executable Path
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- Application Type
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We're only interested in the Executable Path */
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} AppExecLinkReparseBuffer;
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} REPARSE_APPEXECLINK_BUFFER,*PREPARSE_APPEXECLINK_BUFFER;
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static bool
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check_reparse_point_string (PUNICODE_STRING subst)
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{
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if (check_reparse_point_string (psymbuf))
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return PATH_SYMLINK | PATH_REP;
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}
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else if (!remote && rp->ReparseTag == IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK)
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{
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/* App execution aliases are commonly used by Windows Store apps. */
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PREPARSE_APPEXECLINK_BUFFER rpl = (PREPARSE_APPEXECLINK_BUFFER) rp;
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WCHAR *buf = rpl->AppExecLinkReparseBuffer.Strings;
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DWORD size = rp->ReparseDataLength / sizeof (WCHAR), n;
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/* It seems that app execution aliases have a payload of four
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NUL-separated wide string: package id, entry point, executable
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and application type. We're interested in the executable. */
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for (int i = 0; i < 3 && size > 0; i++)
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{
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n = wcsnlen (buf, size - 1);
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if (i == 2 && n > 0 && n < size)
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{
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RtlInitCountedUnicodeString (psymbuf, buf, n * sizeof (WCHAR));
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return PATH_SYMLINK | PATH_REP;
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}
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if (i == 2)
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break;
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buf += n + 1;
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size -= n + 1;
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}
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}
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else if (rp->ReparseTag == IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK)
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{
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/* WSL symlink. Problem: We have to convert the path to UTF-16 for
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