How to retrieve the target of a Junction or Symlink with a standard user

Question

I am trying to get the target of a junction in my program, but the only way I managed do it is:

1. Requesting Backup privileges
2. p-invoke CreateFile wit

Answer 1

I think that this answer in stackoverflow would help you? How do I programmatically access the target path of a windows symbolic link? It should be possible to include a reference to the function via DllImport Attribute in a c# program.

The required handle is obtainable from the a FileStream instance. Somewhat funny that it is marked as obsolete, but maybe the warning states what else you can do.