Excellent news, thank you. I apologise if  I should have seen that
somewhere.

/John

-----Original Message-----
From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+johnd=dyalog....@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of
Takashi Yano
Sent: 13 December 2021 11:06
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a
mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:53:41 -0000
"john daintree" wrote:
> I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of my 
> work process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin with 
> the current directory on a mounted drive I get the following
error/warning/issue:
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> /cygdrive/j$ cmd
> 
> '\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'
> 
> CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> 
> UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> 
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]
> 
> (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> 
>  
> 
> C:\Windows>
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a 
> bit of the path, for probably no good reason)
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?

Thanks for the report. This was already fixed recently in git head.

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250153.html
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q4/011583.html

Please wait for the next cygwin release or new developers snapshot.

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Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp>

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