Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A default install has these faulty ones:
/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\openssl\ca-bundle.trust.crt /etc/ssl/certs -> \??\/etc\pki\tls\certs /lib/security/cacerts -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\java\cacerts /usr/share/doc/groff-1.22.4/pdf/mom-pdf.pdf -> \??\/usr\share\doc\groff-1.22.4\examples\mom\mom-pdf.pdf In particular, we noticed that /etc/ssl/certs being invalid breaks git. David -- 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