How do I programmatically access the target path of a windows symbolic link?

Question

Windows 6 (Vista and Server 2008) support proper symbolic links, which can be created via the CreateSymbolicLink function. But there doesn\'t appear to be a corresponding fu

Answer 1

GetFinalPathNameByHandle

A final path is the path that is returned when a path is fully resolved. For example, for a symbolic link named "C:\tmp\mydir" that points to "D:\yourdir", the final filesystem path would be "D:\yourdir".