c:\a>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 1234-5678

 Directory of c:\a

22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <DIR>          .
22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <DIR>          ..
22/06/2016  03:42 PM               162 main.go
               1 File(s)            162 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   3,354,419,200 bytes free

c:\a>mkdir dir

c:\a>echo "abc" > dir\file.txt

c:\a>mklink /J mklink dir
Junction created for mklink <<===>> dir

c:\a>junction junction dir

Junction v1.06 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Created: c:\a\junction
Targetted at: c:\a\dir

c:\a>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 1234-5678

 Directory of c:\a

22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <DIR>          .
22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <DIR>          ..
22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <DIR>          dir
22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <JUNCTION>     junction [\??\c:\a\dir]
22/06/2016  03:42 PM               162 main.go
22/06/2016  03:48 PM    <JUNCTION>     mklink [c:\a\dir]
               1 File(s)            162 bytes
               5 Dir(s)   3,354,419,200 bytes free

c:\a>type mklink\file.txt
"abc"

c:\a>type junction\file.txt
"abc"

c:\a>junction mklink

Junction v1.06 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

c:\a\mklink: JUNCTION
   Print Name     : c:\a\dir
   Substitute Name: c:\a\dir


c:\a>junction junction

Junction v1.06 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

c:\a\junction: JUNCTION
   Substitute Name: c:\a\dir


c:\a>type main.go
package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "log"
        "os"
)

func main() {
        fi, err := os.Stat(os.Args[1])
        if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }
        fmt.Printf("%s\n", fi.Name())
}

c:\a>go version
go version devel +1f44643 Wed Jun 22 00:12:55 2016 +0000 windows/amd64

c:\a>go run main.go mklink
dir

c:\a>go run main.go junction
2016/06/22 15:50:00 Lstat : The system cannot find the path specified.
exit status 1

c:\a>