[PATCH] Cygwin: add release note about `..` symlinks

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 24 08:30:43 GMT 2025


On Jun 24 10:08, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
> Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/msys2-runtime/releases/tag/fix-dotdot-native_symlink-relnote-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/dscho/msys2-runtime fix-dotdot-native_symlink-relnote-v1
> 
> 	Here you go, sorry for missing that.
> 
>  winsup/cygwin/release/3.6.4 | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.6.4 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.6.4
> index 8eb693c40c..c80a29ea4f 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.6.4
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.6.4
> @@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ Fixes:
>  
>  - Make pthread initializer macros compatible with C++ constinit.
>    Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-June/258305.html
> +
> +- Fix creating native symlinks to `..` (it used to target `../../<dir>`
> +  instead).
> 
> base-commit: 5979f22b9094a22d07cc2382e129f3f858008c88
> -- 
> 2.50.0.windows.1

Pushed.

Thanks,
Corinna


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