Greetings, All! This can be considered "working by design", but it really imposes some serious restrictions on interoperability with Cygwin, that I think can be avoided.
... After some further testing, this seems to be affecting IP-based UNC paths only. The essence is this: $ dir "\\192.168.1.5\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh" 26.10.2018 18:16 431 online.sh $ cygpath -u \\192.168.1.5\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh //192.168.1.5/wwwroot/ccenter/bin/online.sh $ cygpath -u "\\192.168.1.5\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh" /192.168.1.5/wwwroot/ccenter/bin/online.sh $ cygpath -u \\HOSTING64.DARKDRAGON.LAN\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh //HOSTING64.DARKDRAGON.LAN/wwwroot/ccenter/bin/online.sh $ cygpath -u "\\HOSTING64.DARKDRAGON.LAN\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh" //HOSTING64.DARKDRAGON.LAN/wwwroot/ccenter/bin/online.sh $ -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, April 3, 2019 19:11:14 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple