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The answer is probably in the next page of your linked document (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365682%28v=VS.85%29.aspx).
What behaviour is written there for FindFirstFile, FindFirstFileEx, FindNextFile and the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure pointing to symlinks says the opposite than you claiming that 'Symbolic links are supposed to be a file system feature and transparent'.

Anyway, DC++ uses these functions for indexing and the code most
probably does not handle the situation when symlinks returned in
WIN32_FIND_DATA.

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Support Win32 Symbolic Links when indexing share
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653295
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Status in DC++: New

Bug description:
I want to share a directory which contains a number of files linked to via symbolic links (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365680%28VS.85%29.aspx). However the index/hashing thing seems to fail, skip, or otherwise just not work on large numbers of the files. The files physical locations the links target are spread across a number of physical locations (including some shared network locations) and also includes some personal files in the same directory (hence sym linking the files I want and not sharing the directory) that I do not wish to share.

Is there anything I can do about this? Symbolic links are supposed to be a file system feature and transparent so I don't really see why this is failing to work :(