How to count symbolic links and windows shortcuts?

[victordomingos]

Example with symbolic link

Example with Windows shortcut

Should I pay attention to such files or count them on a par with others?

Originally posted by @NataliaBondarenko in #84 (comment)

[victordomingos]

My perception is that windows treats shortcuts as separate files. They should be counted as a .lnk file, IMO.

We have a similar situation os macOS, with shortcuts created using the Finder. In this case, however, on the terminal they behave almost like links, having the the same file name and extension as the original file.

On Unix/linux, symbolic links are meant to be used as in-place representations of a file that may also be linked elsewhere. I would count them as regular files in this context. I believe thats what is happening already in our current code base, right?

[NataliaBondarenko]

yes, they are treated as files.

[victordomingos]

Let's keep it this way, so. Unless we have a good reason to change, I think it works as expected as we have it.