Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

[john daintree]

Hello All,

 

I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of my work
process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin with the current
directory on a mounted drive I get the following error/warning/issue:

 

 

/cygdrive/j$ cmd

'\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'

CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.

UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]

(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

C:\Windows>

 

 

The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a bit of
the path, for probably no good reason)

 

Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?

 

Thanks

John.

 

Re: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

[Takashi Yano]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:53:41 -0000
"john daintree" wrote:
> I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of my work
> process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin with the current
> directory on a mounted drive I get the following error/warning/issue:
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> /cygdrive/j$ cmd
> 
> '\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'
> 
> CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> 
> UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> 
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]
> 
> (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> 
>  
> 
> C:\Windows>
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a bit of
> the path, for probably no good reason)
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?

Thanks for the report. This was already fixed recently in git head.

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250153.html
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q4/011583.html

Please wait for the next cygwin release or new developers snapshot.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

RE: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

[john daintree]

Excellent news, thank you. I apologise if  I should have seen that
somewhere.

/John

-----Original Message-----
From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+johnd=dyalog.com@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of
Takashi Yano
Sent: 13 December 2021 11:06
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a
mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:53:41 -0000
"john daintree" wrote:
> I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of my 
> work process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin with 
> the current directory on a mounted drive I get the following
error/warning/issue:
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> /cygdrive/j$ cmd
> 
> '\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'
> 
> CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> 
> UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> 
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]
> 
> (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> 
>  
> 
> C:\Windows>
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a 
> bit of the path, for probably no good reason)
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?

Thanks for the report. This was already fixed recently in git head.

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250153.html
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q4/011583.html

Please wait for the next cygwin release or new developers snapshot.

--
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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Re: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 13 20:06, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:53:41 -0000
> "john daintree" wrote:
> > I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of my work
> > process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin with the current
> > directory on a mounted drive I get the following error/warning/issue:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > /cygdrive/j$ cmd
> > 
> > '\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'
> > 
> > CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> > 
> > UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> > 
> > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]
> > 
> > (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > C:\Windows>
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a bit of
> > the path, for probably no good reason)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?
> 
> Thanks for the report. This was already fixed recently in git head.
> 
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250153.html
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q4/011583.html
> 
> Please wait for the next cygwin release or new developers snapshot.

New developer snapshot is available on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Corinna

RE: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

[john daintree]

Cool, thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+johnd=dyalog.com@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of
Corinna Vinschen
Sent: 13 December 2021 15:06
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a
mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

On Dec 13 20:06, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:53:41 -0000
> "john daintree" wrote:
> > I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of 
> > my work process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin 
> > with the current directory on a mounted drive I get the following
error/warning/issue:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > /cygdrive/j$ cmd
> > 
> > '\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'
> > 
> > CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> > 
> > UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> > 
> > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]
> > 
> > (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > C:\Windows>
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a 
> > bit of the path, for probably no good reason)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?
> 
> Thanks for the report. This was already fixed recently in git head.
> 
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250153.html
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q4/011583.html
> 
> Please wait for the next cygwin release or new developers snapshot.

New developer snapshot is available on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Corinna

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