Issues with Cygwin64 on Windows11

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Sun Jul 31 08:21:32 GMT 2022


On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:11:17 +0300
Dimax wrote:
> Hello.
> I've never had much luck with Cygwin64 and used the 32 bit version before.
> Today I have no choice and I've installed Cyg64 on my new Win11 PC.
> 
> Here is the first major issue I faced. I can not create symbolic links:
> 
> Alex@Alexo ~
> $ ls /cygdrive/C/XOL/
> 
> Alex@Alexo ~
> $ ln -s /cygdrive/C/XOL/ work
> 
> Alex@Alexo ~
> $ ls -all work
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Alex None 11 Jul 31 09:09 work -> /mnt/C/XOL/
> 
> Alex@Alexo ~
> $ cd ~/work/
> -bash: cd: /home/Alex/work/: No such file or directory
> 
> The link is created but I can not use it.
> The only thing that I did not standard was to call installation folder
> C:\Cygwin instead of default C:\Cygwin64
> 
> Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks for the report. This seems to happen only when
the drive letter is uppercase.

ln -s /cygdrive/c/XOL/ work
works.

Anyway, I think this is a problem of cygwin1.dll.

This
work -> /mnt/C/XOL/
should be
work -> /cygdrive/C/XOL/
shouldn't it?

It guess this is a bug in the code added for WSL
compatibility.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>


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