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From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:06:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211213200623.606ba51691c1209a2f2c2a75@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015801d7f00f$b117ed70$1347c850$@dyalog.com>

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>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-13 10:53 john daintree
2021-12-13 11:06 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2021-12-13 11:09   ` john daintree
2021-12-13 15:06   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-14 10:12     ` john daintree

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