On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Linda A. Walsh <g...@tlinx.org> wrote: > > Ah.... > > > I have my cygwin "cygdrive path prefix" set to "/" >> >> mount -p > > Prefix Type Flags > / user binmode > > You should be able to set it once: >> >> mount -c / > > > I also have my "cygwin" installed in "C:\" > not "C:\cygwin". > > With those two changes, my cygwin and windows paths > are identical (except for backslash or forward slash). > > > Forgot about that -- have had it in root for over 10 years...since I > first installed cygwin. > > FWIW -- I **might** call this a minor bug (or feature deficit). > If you ahve native mode set for the symlinks, then, I would > argue that it shouldn't insert a "cygwin/c" in the path... > > Windows won't let you create a symlink to a non-existent path > (you can on unix or linux), so when it fails for any reason -- > cygwin falls back to storing the link in a file.
Thanks for all your suggestions. With Regards, Amit Kapila.