Similar to December's "cygwin1.dll > 3.1.4 Program execution fails if (WSL-)symlink exists and is present in PATH", but it's still present in 3.1.6 and 3.1.7. While I can revert back to 3.1.4 (and 3.1.2,) links I have created since then do not show up as links and are listed as owned by UnknownUser and UnknownGroup. I have dozens of such links scattered throughout, making revert testing impractical.
I keep scripts in /home/userid/bat, which is a link, and compiled programs in /home/userid/bin, which is a simple directory. My PATH begins with .:/home/userid/bat:/home/userid/bin:... Problems started when I changed the /home/userid/bat link. After the change, none of the programs in /home/userid/bin worked. They would just return. Running them with gdb, they would fail to start (During startup program exited with code 0xc000079) /usr/bin/ programs continued to operate normally. My relevant links are as follows: /C -> /cygdrive/c /home/data -> /C/home/data /home/userid/bat -> /home/data/home/bat Currently my /home/userid/bat link is owned by Administrators:None, as restored by backup software. If I replace it, programs in /home/userid/bin do not run. If I add ANY other new link to the beginning of $PATH, none of my compiled programs anywhere run. Adding at the end does not cause any detectable problem. With a PATH containing a beginning link: ldd ~/bin/program yields: ntdll.dll => ,,, KERNEL32.DLL => ... KERNELBASE.dll => ... Without leading link items (except for the restored link), ldd ~/bin/program additionally yields: cygwin1.dll => ,,, (and sometimes more) Let me know if you need further information. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
