I try to reliably determine if native Windows symlink are working for a current cygwin environment in a shell script. Therefor I used a powershell snipped: mkdir asdfgh ln -s asdfgh/ asdfgh-1 powershell "& {Get-Item -Path asdfgh-1 | Select-Object}" On cygwin 3.0.7 the output is as follows: Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d----l 29.02.2020 13:58 asdfgh-1 On cygwin 3.1.4 I get: Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 29.02.2020 13:58 asdfgh-1 So now there is no indication that this is a link. Is this new behaviour intended or a bug? I did not try on Windows 10, I'm still on windows 7. Rainer