Fix get_dirent_type() for symlinks on MinGW/MSYS.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: fc4e5af30749eadc2acf98de426fa51910f8766b
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-07-28T02:27:28Z
Releases: 15.0
Fix get_dirent_type() for symlinks on MinGW/MSYS.

On Windows with MSVC, get_dirent_type() was recently made to return
DT_LNK for junction points by commit 9d3444dc, which fixed some
defective dirent.c code.

On Windows with Cygwin, get_dirent_type() already worked for symlinks,
as it does on POSIX systems, because Cygwin has its own fake symlinks
that behave like POSIX (on closer inspection, Cygwin's dirent has the
BSD d_type extension but it's probably always DT_UNKNOWN, so we fall
back to lstat(), which understands Cygwin symlinks with S_ISLNK()).

On Windows with MinGW/MSYS, we need extra code, because the MinGW
runtime has its own readdir() without d_type, and the lstat()-based
fallback has no knowledge of our convention for treating junctions as
symlinks.

Back-patch to 14, where get_dirent_type() landed.

Reported-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9ddf605-6b36-f90d-7c30-7b3e95c46276%40dunslane.net

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