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From: Oskar Skog <novia@oskog97.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: too many level of symbolic links
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:05:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6de895b2-4a8b-6af0-0e16-55183dcdc7d4@oskog97.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002301d823da$e147ee60$a3d7cb20$@uni-bremen.de>

On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> I have a network drive mapped like
> //hostname/share --> p:
> 
> When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:
> 
> $ ls /cygdrive/p
> ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as normal.
> 
> I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.
> 
> Any hints / advice how to resolve this?
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> 
> 



Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been
a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been
fixed.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-17 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-17  8:46 Andreas Heckel
2022-02-17 10:05 ` Oskar Skog [this message]
2022-02-17 10:41   ` Andreas Heckel
2022-02-17 12:00     ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-02-17 12:41       ` Andreas Heckel

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