symbolic links to /cygdrive/X/xxx with capital letter X

Wayne Davison wayne@opencoder.net
Sat Jun 13 23:33:00 GMT 2020


On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 1:50 PM Andrey Repin wrote:
> The cygdrive prefix is resolved, if no other mount points match.
> Since you have /mnt/C mount point, it is resolved first.

I wish it would have resolved it to the cygdrive prefix, because then
it would have worked (and would have been /cygdrive/C/Windows). Maybe
cygwin is getting confused by the WLS ubuntu install I have? It puts
its mounts under /mnt, but cygwin has always used the /cygdrive path.

..wayne..


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