too many level of symbolic links

too many level of symbolic links

[Andreas Heckel]

I have a network drive mapped like
//hostname/share --> p:

When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:

$ ls /cygdrive/p
ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic links

Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as normal.

I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.

Any hints / advice how to resolve this?

Cheers, Andreas

Re: too many level of symbolic links

[Oskar Skog]

On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> I have a network drive mapped like
> //hostname/share --> p:
> 
> When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:
> 
> $ ls /cygdrive/p
> ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as normal.
> 
> I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.
> 
> Any hints / advice how to resolve this?
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> 
> 



Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been
a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been
fixed.

RE: too many level of symbolic links

[Andreas Heckel]

> Of Oskar Skog
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 11:05 AM
> Subject: Re: too many level of symbolic links
> 
> On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> > I have a network drive mapped like
> > //hostname/share --> p:
> >
> > When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:
> >
> > $ ls /cygdrive/p
> > ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic
> links
> >
> > Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as
> normal.
> >
> > I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this
> happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't
> really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.
> >
> > Any hints / advice how to resolve this?
> >
> > Cheers, Andreas
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been
> a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been
> fixed.
> 

Just to be certain, I ran setup again. There are currently no pending updates.

3472k 2022/01/31 C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 3.3.4

Re: too many level of symbolic links

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 17 11:41, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> 
> 
> > Of Oskar Skog
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 11:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: too many level of symbolic links
> > 
> > On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> > > I have a network drive mapped like
> > > //hostname/share --> p:
> > >
> > > When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:
> > >
> > > $ ls /cygdrive/p
> > > ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic
> > links
> > >
> > > Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as
> > normal.
> > >
> > > I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this
> > happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't
> > really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.
> > >
> > > Any hints / advice how to resolve this?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Andreas
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been
> > a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been
> > fixed.
> > 
> 
> Just to be certain, I ran setup again. There are currently no pending updates.
> 
> 3472k 2022/01/31 C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 3.3.4

There was YA patch necessary to fix this regression
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=71d5490a3a2d
and that patch isn't in 3.3.4.  Please test the latest (2022-02-17)
Cygwin snapshot DLL from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Thanks,
Corinna

RE: too many level of symbolic links

[Andreas Heckel]

> Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 1:00 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: too many level of symbolic links
> 
> On Feb 17 11:41, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Of Oskar Skog
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 11:05 AM
> > > Subject: Re: too many level of symbolic links
> > >
> > > On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> > > > I have a network drive mapped like
> > > > //hostname/share --> p:
> > > >
> > > > When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:
> > > >
> > > > $ ls /cygdrive/p
> > > > ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic
> > > links
> > > >
> > > > Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as
> > > normal.
> > > >
> > > > I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this
> > > happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't
> > > really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.
> > > >
> > > > Any hints / advice how to resolve this?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers, Andreas
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been
> > > a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been
> > > fixed.
> > >
> >
> > Just to be certain, I ran setup again. There are currently no pending
> updates.
> >
> > 3472k 2022/01/31 C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll
> >     Cygwin DLL version info:
> >         DLL version: 3.3.4
> 
> There was YA patch necessary to fix this regression
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-
> cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=71d5490a3a2d
> and that patch isn't in 3.3.4.  Please test the latest (2022-02-17)
> Cygwin snapshot DLL from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Confirmed, snapshot version of cygwin1.dll solves the issue. :)

Thanks,
Andreas