Re: [PATCH v2] Cygwin: respect PC_SYM_FOLLOW and PC_SYM_NOFOLLOW_REP with inner links

[Jeremy Drake <cygwin@jdrake.com>]

On Mon, 31 May 2021, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> What bugs me here is that there's no guarantee that you can keep your
> path below MAX_PATH, independently of what you do here.  This is all
> a bit like patching up left and right just to keep dumb native tools
> running even in scenarios where they just fail otherwise.
>
> So we have two contradict problems, one which is solved by following
> inner symlinks, one which is solved by not doing that... I'm not overly
> keen to support this scenario.
>
> Wouldn't that be something more suited for an MSYS2-local patch?

I discussed this with the MSYS2 maintainers, and while they are open to
disabling this code in the short term, they would like to minimize the
patches against upstream Cygwin they carry.

For now I've proposed https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/pull/54
there, and will test that is indeed the 'fix' for this (and a couple of
apparently related issues with mapped-network-drives turning into UNC for
Windows processes)

> Corinna