go: os/exec: calling Command on file with UWP reparse point fails with "file does not exist"

Windows 10 ships with some 0 length files in C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps with special reparse points which when run trigger the windows app store app to be launched.

Once installed, the same files result in the installed app to be run going forward. For instance, Windows 10 ships with python3.exe which is in fact a link to python3.8 available on the Windows App Store. C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps happens to be on the PATH by default so once installed, the python3 interpreter should be invoked. However, when trying to run the same through Go’s exec.Cmd we get a file does not exist error (see below for simple repro).

The main issue seems to be a call to os.Stat from the exec.Cmd run path. os.Stat on windows doesn’t pass syscall.FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT resulting in the error (unlike Lstat).

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
1.15.5

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

Windows 10

$ go env
set GO111MODULE=
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOENV=C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\go\env
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOINSECURE=
set GOMODCACHE=C:\Users\User\go\pkg\mod
set GONOPROXY=
set GONOSUMDB=
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=C:\Users\User\go
set GOPRIVATE=
set GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct
set GOROOT=c:\go
set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=c:\go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GCCGO=gccgo
set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=1
set GOMOD=
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -mthreads -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build056150306=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches

What did you do?

$ cat main.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
)

func do() error {
	res, err := os.Lstat("C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\python3.exe")
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Println("python3 exists!")
	fmt.Printf("%#v\n", res)
	cmd := exec.Command("C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\python3.exe", "-c", "print('hello')")
	btes, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Printf("%v\n", btes)
	return nil
}

func main() {
	err := do()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

PS C:\Users\User> go run main.go

What did you expect to see?

python3 exists!
&os.fileStat{name:"python3.exe", FileAttributes:0x420, CreationTime:syscall.Filetime{LowDateTime:0x5094a4bc, HighDateTime:0x1d6a0b0}, LastAccessTime:syscall.Filetime{LowDateTime:0xb3aada47, HighDateTime:0x1d6be0b}, LastWriteTime:syscall.Filetime{LowDateTime:0xb3aada47, HighDateTime:0x1d6be0b}, FileSizeHigh:0x0, FileSizeLow:0x0, Reserved0:0x8000001b, filetype:0x0, Mutex:sync.Mutex{state:0, sema:0x0}, path:"", vol:0x16999dcb, idxhi:0x30000, idxlo:0x14bc9, appendNameToPath:false}
hello

What did you see instead?

python3 exists!
&os.fileStat{name:"python3.exe", FileAttributes:0x420, CreationTime:syscall.Filetime{LowDateTime:0x5094a4bc, HighDateTime:0x1d6a0b0}, LastAccessTime:syscall.Filetime{LowDateTime:0xb3aada47, HighDateTime:0x1d6be0b}, LastWriteTime:syscall.Filetime{LowDateTime:0xb3aada47, HighDateTime:0x1d6be0b}, FileSizeHigh:0x0, FileSizeLow:0x0, Reserved0:0x8000001b, filetype:0x0, Mutex:sync.Mutex{state:0, sema:0x0}, path:"", vol:0x16999dcb, idxhi:0x30000, idxlo:0x14bc9, appendNameToPath:false}
panic: exec: "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\python3.exe": file does not exist

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
        C:/Users/User/main.go:28 +0x4b
exit status 2