Junctions seem to respond differently to symlinks with commands like "pwd - P", getcwd(), or Perl's Cwd::getcwd. This is the last stop of a wild goose chase for a bug that I thought was centered around File::chdir. More details here:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84988 However, upon further inspection, the buck stop here. Here's the problem: Let's say I have a junction of /var/bin pointing to /usr/local/bin. It looks just like a symlink in a "ls -l" on /var lrwxrwxrwx 1 bbyrd Domain Users 14 May 8 20:23 bin -> /usr/local/bin So, starting from /var, here's what I get from "pwd -P": bbyrd@PC:/var$ pwd -P /var bbyrd@PC:/var$ cd bin bbyrd@PC:/var/bin$ pwd -P /usr/local/bin bbyrd@PC:/var/bin$ mkdir asd bbyrd@PC:/var/bin$ cd asd bbyrd@PC:/var/bin/asd$ pwd -P /var/bin/asd What the hell? Everything was going fine until you dive deeper into the directory, past the junction point. This should have read "/usr/local/bin/asd", since the "-P" means to find ALL of the symlinks and resolve them. This actually works exactly like that with symlinks, but symlinks suck outside of Cygwin. (Windows just gives me a stupid "System folder" in Explorer.) I'd like to have the best of both worlds: Junctions that play nice in both Cygwin and Windows. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple