Jon Turney wrote: > On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: > > Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > >>> 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 > >> > >> > >> Thanks for reporting this. > >> > >> Yes, it seems this is messed up where the target of the symlink is an > >> absolute path. > >> > >> I've uploaded setup 2.913 with an attempted fix. > >> > >> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.913.x86_64.exe > >> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.913.x86.exe > >> > >> Please try that (you'll have to reinstall the effected packages), and > >> see if it improves things for you? > > > > Thank you! This fixes it for the Cygwin side, although the symlinks are > > still technically not right from the Windows side. They're still showing > > up prefixed \??\. > > > > It's an age since I mucked around with those functions - IIRC the API > > function for writing them adds the \??\ itself and doesn't expect it > > to have been supplied? However, when you read the reparse point you > > have to remember to remove it yourself because who needs consistency > > :o) > > Thanks for testing. It seems I still didn't have this quite right and > these symlinks just happened to work for cygwin, but not native tools. > > Please try > > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.914.x86_64.exe > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.914.x86.exe
I'm afraid that's just changed the \??\ to \\?\ on those symlinks. All best, 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
