On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:21:32 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:11:17 +0300
> Dimax wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I've never had much luck with Cygwin64 and used the 32 bit version before.
> > Today I have no choice and I've installed Cyg64 on my new Win11 PC.
> > 
> > Here is the first major issue I faced. I can not create symbolic links:
> > 
> > Alex@Alexo ~
> > $ ls /cygdrive/C/XOL/
> > 
> > Alex@Alexo ~
> > $ ln -s /cygdrive/C/XOL/ work
> > 
> > Alex@Alexo ~
> > $ ls -all work
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 Alex None 11 Jul 31 09:09 work -> /mnt/C/XOL/
> > 
> > Alex@Alexo ~
> > $ cd ~/work/
> > -bash: cd: /home/Alex/work/: No such file or directory
> > 
> > The link is created but I can not use it.
> > The only thing that I did not standard was to call installation folder
> > C:\Cygwin instead of default C:\Cygwin64
> > 
> > Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for the report. This seems to happen only when
> the drive letter is uppercase.
> 
> ln -s /cygdrive/c/XOL/ work
> works.
> 
> Anyway, I think this is a problem of cygwin1.dll.
> 
> This
> work -> /mnt/C/XOL/
> should be
> work -> /cygdrive/C/XOL/
> shouldn't it?
> 
> It guess this is a bug in the code added for WSL
> compatibility.

I found the patch attached solves the issue.

Corinna, WDYT?

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