There is a problem with identifying file path soft links on Windows

[Michaelzhouisnotwhite]

Type: Bug

Here is a bcd.cpp:

void foo();
void main() {
    foo();
}

Suppose there is a repo named abc on path: C:\Users\Repository\abc. File bcd.cpp is under folder abc. Repository is a symbolic link of C:\Users\Documents\My-Archives\Repository. As I use code C:\Users\Repository\abc to open the workspace and click the function foo. Vscode will open anothor bcd.cpp editor with abs path. It cannot recognize that those two bcd.cpp is the same file.

Example screenshots:

click init function:

Then anothor file open. The normal way is to jump to the current file.

The update file explore button is not worked as well.

VS Code version: Code 1.83.1 (f1b07bd25dfad64b0167beb15359ae573aecd2cc, 2023-10-10T23:48:05.904Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631 Modes:

System Info

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canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
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A/B Experiments

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[bpasero]

/duplicate https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/130082

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