cygwin1.dll > 3.1.4: Program execution fails if (WSL-)symlink exists and is present in PATH

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  2 15:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  2 13:39, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 19:13:39 -0500
> > Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/1/2020 4:24 AM, Mattl Mario wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Since cygwin1.dll version 3.1.5, I observed the following behavior:
> > > > If a symbolic link is existing in the PATH environment, programs (external from Cygwin's system directory) using cygwin1.dll cannot be executed anymore.
> > > > Possibly, because the Cygwin-DLL isn't found anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > Steps to reproduce:
> > > > 
> > > > cd /
> > > > mkdir link_test
> > > > cp /usr/bin/sed.exe link_test
> > > > ln -s link_test test
> > > > export PATH=/test:/link_test:/usr/bin:/bin
> > > > 
> > > > /link_test/sed cannot be executed
> > > > $ ldd /link_test/sed
> > > >          ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ffffd960000)
> > > >          KERNEL32.DLL => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL (0x7ffffd140000)
> > > >          KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNELBASE.dll (0x7ffffa8e0000)
> > > >          SYSFER.DLL => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/SYSFER.DLL (0x550c0000)
> > > > 
> > > > -> no cygwin- DLLs found
> > > > [...]
> > > I think this was fixed by commit 4b4fffe0f2390be6a5be27b6a3ceaa212a3724b2, but I 
> > > don't have time to check carefully, and I'm going to be AFK for a few days 
> > > starting tomorrow.
> > 
> > I can reproduce this issue with current git head even with
> > the commit 4b4fffe0f2390be6a5be27b6a3ceaa212a3724b2.
> 
> Just looking into it.  It has something to do with missing to resolve
> a WSL symlinks to a Windows path, but I'm not sure yet where this occurs.

I pushed a patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Please give it a try.


Thanks,
Corinna