This is inspired largely by the new (/ returning) feature of OneDrive in Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update, which downloads files on-demand.
A side effect of that change is that the OneDrive folder (and subfolders of it) are marked as reparse points, even though they are not technically standard symlinks.
With this change, a new extension method IsSymlink is added for ISnapshotService and ISystemIO, which checks both the file attributes (for reparse point) and the symlink target path (if null, the path is not treated as a symlink).
All places that previously checked only the file attributes have been updated to use either this method (or at least the same logic, in the case of the core BackupHandler file check).
One side effect of this change is that '--symlink-policy=store' no longer ignores empty symlinks - they are now treated as regular files.
If there are empty symlinks, they will now be backed up as if they were regular files, but I don't know what the conditions are that create symlinks like that, so this might not effect anything in practice.
Still needs a work over in terms of error handling, progress reporting, warning output, refactoring etc.
Also misses the volume reuse/reclaim algorithms.
But it passes the unit tests now, with and without a local database.
git-svn-id: https://duplicati.googlecode.com/svn/sandboxes/Kenneth/ForestHash@1526 59da171f-624f-0410-aa54-27559c288bec
Kenneth Skovhede