From 1b2de89bce7eee3c63ce2286f071db57cd2cfa22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Machalow <csm10495@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:19:34 -0800
Subject: gh-99547: Add isjunction methods for checking if a path is a junction
 (GH-99548)

---
 Lib/ntpath.py | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Lib/ntpath.py')

diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index d9582f40874..873c884c3bd 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ __all__ = ["normcase","isabs","join","splitdrive","split","splitext",
            "ismount", "expanduser","expandvars","normpath","abspath",
            "curdir","pardir","sep","pathsep","defpath","altsep",
            "extsep","devnull","realpath","supports_unicode_filenames","relpath",
-           "samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath"]
+           "samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath", "isjunction"]
 
 def _get_bothseps(path):
     if isinstance(path, bytes):
@@ -267,6 +267,24 @@ def islink(path):
         return False
     return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)
 
+
+# Is a path a junction?
+
+if hasattr(os.stat_result, 'st_reparse_tag'):
+    def isjunction(path):
+        """Test whether a path is a junction"""
+        try:
+            st = os.lstat(path)
+        except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
+            return False
+        return bool(st.st_reparse_tag == stat.IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT)
+else:
+    def isjunction(path):
+        """Test whether a path is a junction"""
+        os.fspath(path)
+        return False
+
+
 # Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.
 
 def lexists(path):
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