Re: realpath issue with native[strict] symlinks

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On May 18 13:01, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> Sorry ,forgot subject
> 
> On Tue, 18 May 2021, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> 
> > > Sorry, but there's only this or that, not both.  Either we revert the
> > > entire change, including the native shortcut stuff, or we do it
> > > completely and fully, including handling virtual drives as symlinks.
> >
> > I had success with just the following change (of course comments would
> > also need to be updated):
> >
> > diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
> > index 4ebaf4dc6..53534b8b6 100644
> > --- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
> > +++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
> > @@ -3670,8 +3670,7 @@ restart:
> >  		   somewhere else, thus, it's a symlink in POSIX speak. */
> >  		if (upath.Length == 14)	/* \??\X:\ */
> >  		  {
> > -		    fileattr &= ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY;
> > -		    path_flags |= PATH_SYMLINK;
> > +		    goto file_not_symlink;
> >  		  }
> >  		/* For final paths differing in inner path components return
> >  		   length as negative value.  This informs path_conv::check
> >
> > Treating mapped/subst drives as though they were not symlinks, without
> > messing with intermedate symlinks.

It was that simple, surprise, surprise...

I pushed the change under your name.


Thanks,
Corinna