'ls -l' in symbolic link directory on Windows lists the link itself instead of the target directory contents

[chengwu26]

​Description​​

When using ls -l inside a symbolic link directory (created as a symlink to another directory) on ​​Windows​​, the command only displays the symbolic link itself rather than the contents of the target directory. This behavior does NOT occur when running ls without the -l flag.

# ls -l
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 1 somebody somegroup 0 May  1 22:30 apps
drwxrwxrwx 1 somebody somegroup 0 Mar 23 14:15 media
lr-xr-xr-x 1 somebody somegroup 0 Mar 23 14:36 pkgs -> 'E:\pkgs'
lr-xr-xr-x 1 somebody somegroup 0 May  1 23:21 scoop -> '.\apps\scoop'

# cd scoop && ls -l
lr-xr-xr-x 1 somebody somegroup 0 May  1 23:21 . -> '.\apps\scoop'

# ls
apps  buckets  modules  persist  scoop.db  shims  workspace

​Environment​​

OS infomation

版本 Windows 11 专业版
版本号 24H2
安装日期 ‎2025/‎2/‎16
操作系统版本 26100.3915
体验 Windows 功能体验包 1000.26100.83.0

ls version

ls 0.0.30

[zhw2101024]

commit 2c130ae changed the behavior of -l option, though can't find why.