On 7/31/2022 8:23 PM, Takashi Yano wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:21:32 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:11:17 +0300
Dimax wrote:
Hello.
I've never had much luck with Cygwin64 and used the 32 bit version before.
Today I have no choice and I've installed Cyg64 on my new Win11 PC.
Here is the first major issue I faced. I can not create symbolic links:
Alex@Alexo ~
$ ls /cygdrive/C/XOL/
Alex@Alexo ~
$ ln -s /cygdrive/C/XOL/ work
Alex@Alexo ~
$ ls -all work
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Alex None 11 Jul 31 09:09 work -> /mnt/C/XOL/
Alex@Alexo ~
$ cd ~/work/
-bash: cd: /home/Alex/work/: No such file or directory
The link is created but I can not use it.
The only thing that I did not standard was to call installation folder
C:\Cygwin instead of default C:\Cygwin64
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks for the report. This seems to happen only when
the drive letter is uppercase.
ln -s /cygdrive/c/XOL/ work
works.
Anyway, I think this is a problem of cygwin1.dll.
This
work -> /mnt/C/XOL/
should be
work -> /cygdrive/C/XOL/
shouldn't it?
It guess this is a bug in the code added for WSL
compatibility.
I found the patch attached solves the issue.
Corinna, WDYT?
I'm not Corinna, but replacing oldpath by normpath doesn't seem like the right
thing to do at the time of symlink creation. If I create a symlink under
Cygwin, I expect the target to be used under Cygwin exactly as I enter it. The
internal replacement of the cygdrive prefix by /mnt for WSL compatibility is
fine, as long as I never see it except under WSL. But since WSL doesn't
recognize /mnt/<uppercase drive letter>, I don't think Cygwin should convert
/<cygdrive prefix>/<uppercase drive letter>. Users who want WSL
interoperability just have to use lowercase drive letters.
I'm tempted to go even further and say that Cygwin shouldn't ever convert the
cygdrive prefix to /mnt, on the grounds that users who care about WSL
interoperability can simply use /mnt as their cygdrive prefix. But maybe that
ship has sailed.
Ken
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