Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

David Allsopp David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 6 10:46:13 GMT 2022


Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A
default install has these faulty ones:

/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem ->
\??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt ->
\??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt ->
\??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\openssl\ca-bundle.trust.crt
/etc/ssl/certs -> \??\/etc\pki\tls\certs
/lib/security/cacerts -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\java\cacerts
/usr/share/doc/groff-1.22.4/pdf/mom-pdf.pdf ->
\??\/usr\share\doc\groff-1.22.4\examples\mom\mom-pdf.pdf

In particular, we noticed that /etc/ssl/certs being invalid breaks git.


David



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