microsoft / microsoft/win32metadata
Some `IO_REPARSE_TAG_` constants are signed instead of unsigned
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Description
The following tags have value types that are signed ints instead of being unsigned like other `IO_REPARSE_TAG_` values.
```
IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPXSTRM
IO_REPARSE_TAG_DFM
IO_REPARSE_TAG_DRIVE_EXTENDER
IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILTER_MANAGER
IO_REPARSE_TAG_IIS_CACHE
IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_BLK
IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_CHR
IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_FIFO
IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK
IO_REPARSE_TAG_STORAGE_SYNC_FOLDER
```
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No file or test is named. Search the metadata-generation sources for the listed IO_REPARSE_TAG_ constants and compare their value types with other constants in the same group. Done means all ten listed tags are represented as unsigned values, with the relevant validation or generation checks passing.
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- cpp
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- operating-systems, tooling
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- Bug
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