Function canCreateSymLink

test/common/index.js:539–560

()

}

function canCreateSymLink() {
  // On Windows, creating symlinks requires admin privileges.
  // We'll only try to run symlink test if we have enough privileges.
  // On other platforms, creating symlinks shouldn't need admin privileges
  if (isWindows) {
    // whoami.exe needs to be the one from System32
    // If unix tools are in the path, they can shadow the one we want,
    // so use the full path while executing whoami
    const whoamiPath = path.join(process.env.SystemRoot,
                                 'System32', 'whoami.exe');

    try {
      const { execSync } = require('child_process');
      const output = execSync(`${whoamiPath} /priv`, { timeout: 1000 });
      return output.includes('SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege');
    } catch {
      return false;
    }
  }
  // On non-Windows platforms, this always returns `true`
  return true;
}

function mustNotCall(msg) {
  const callSite = getCallSites()[1];