From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: BRISLANE Mark <mark.brislane@partners.axa>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin 3.3.4 - cmd to symlinked path doesn't work
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 15:47:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157721958.20220201154725@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR04MB41575EBC7E202ACC1249553186269@VI1PR04MB4157.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
Greetings, BRISLANE Mark!
> We had this issue in 3.3.3 and is down as being fixed in 3.3.4-2 but
> perhaps our scenario is slightly different because it's still happening.
> SERVER1 has a folder on D: called folder 1, which is a symlink to
> "\\server2\share\folder1" - created with mklink /D folder1 \\server2\share\folder1
> DOMAIN+Administrator@SERVER1 /cygdrive/d
> $ ls -l
> total 3
> drwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators SERVER1+None 0 Jan 28 11:03 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
> d---rwx---+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jan 25 23:07 'System Volume Information'
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators DOMAIN+Domain Users 32 Nov 9 10:52 folder1 -> //server2/share/folder1
> DOMAIN+Administrator@SERVER1 /cygdrive/d
> $ cd folder1
> DOMAIN+Administrator@SERVER1 /cygdrive/d/folder1
> $ cmd
> '\\server2\share\folder1'
> CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
> (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> C:\Windows>
> This used to work in older versions of Cygwin.
The interesting part is that the behavior is dependent on sequence of events.
`mintty bash -i` in a directory:
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/d/cygwin
> $ cmd
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> D:\cygwin> exit
>
> $ cd $( pwd )
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/d/cygwin
> $ cmd
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> \\DAEMON1.DARKDRAGON.LAN\arc\cygwin>
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 15:28:28
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-01 11:46 BRISLANE Mark
2022-02-01 12:47 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2022-02-01 14:03 ` [EXTERNAL] " BRISLANE Mark
2022-02-01 14:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-02-03 10:56 ` Andrey Repin
2022-02-03 11:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
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