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Windows: Add support for creating symlinks as an unprivileged user

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See https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/
for announcement of new flag.

This change follow the same pattern as what was done in "go":
https://github.com/golang/go/pull/24307/files#diff-b87bc12e4da2497308f9ef746086e4f0

Change-Id: If1e99fefdd3f787598e695731019c34b9bfcd1c2
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Renaud Paquay 2018-10-01 14:59:48 -07:00
parent e469a0c741
commit 2b42d288c0
1 changed files with 15 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ CreateSymbolicLinkW.argtypes = (LPCWSTR, # lpSymlinkFileName In
# Symbolic link creation flags
SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_FILE = 0x00
SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY = 0x01
# symlink support for CreateSymbolicLink() starting with Windows 10 (1703, v10.0.14972)
SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE = 0x02
GetFileAttributesW = kernel32.GetFileAttributesW
GetFileAttributesW.restype = DWORD
@ -147,6 +149,12 @@ def _create_symlink(source, link_name, dwFlags):
# On success, the function returns "1".
# On error, the function returns some random value (e.g. 1280).
# The best bet seems to use "GetLastError" and check for error/success.
CreateSymbolicLinkW(link_name, source, dwFlags | SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE)
code = get_last_error()
if code != ERROR_SUCCESS:
# See https://github.com/golang/go/pull/24307/files#diff-b87bc12e4da2497308f9ef746086e4f0
# "the unprivileged create flag is unsupported below Windows 10 (1703, v10.0.14972).
# retry without it."
CreateSymbolicLinkW(link_name, source, dwFlags)
code = get_last_error()
if code != ERROR_SUCCESS: