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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 10:16:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbHJgHF/JdY2baoH@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211209171656.d144e77995c9f07fb4c38f9d@nifty.ne.jp>

On Dec  9 17:16, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 11:37:39 +0100
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec  8 17:20, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:15:42 +0100
> > > I confirmed that your patch works nicely.
> > > 
> > > ...except when the drive is created by subst using UNC path,
> > > e.g. subst w: \\server\share.
> > > 
> > > In this case, WNetGetConnectionW() fails with ERROR_NO_NET_OR_BAD_PATH.
> > > 
> > > So, I modified your patch a bit.
> > > 
> > > What about attached patch?
> > 
> > Oh, great!  GetVolumePathNameW is the function I somehow missed when
> > looking into the Microsoft docs yesterday, so thanks for modifying the
> > patch this way.
> > 
> > Please push.
> 
> I noticed that this code does not work if UNC path "\\server\share\dir"
> (rather than "\\server\share") is mounted to virtual drive.

Oh drat, I tried that explicitely and I saw that WNetGetConnectionW
returns the same as `net use' on the command line.  So
GetVolumePathNameW only returns the actual share name?  Sigh.

> I will submit a patch for this issue. Sorry for testing insufficiently.

No worries and thanks,
Corinna

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Ya+WvmECA+zAbuV9@calimero.vinschen.de>
2021-12-08  8:20 ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-08 10:37   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-09  8:16     ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-09  9:16       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-11-30 17:04 Oskar Skog
2021-11-30 21:40 ` Gackle, Philip P
2021-12-02 10:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-05  2:54 ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-05 14:49   ` Oskar Skog
2021-12-06  3:31     ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-06  6:34       ` Oskar Skog
2021-12-06  8:04       ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-06 10:16   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-06 10:55     ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-07  0:46       ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-07 14:57         ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-07 15:32           ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-07 15:43             ` Takashi Yano
2021-12-07 16:03             ` Corinna Vinschen

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