in reply to parsing the Windows directories
I think you might need to use lstat instead of stat.
At the bottom of the stat docs, it says:
To get status info for a symbolic link instead of the target file behind the link, use the lstat function.
And in lstat:
Does the same thing as the stat function (including setting the special _ filehandle) but stats a symbolic link instead of the file the symbolic link points to. If symbolic links are unimplemented on your system, a normal stat is done.
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