Greetings, Brian Inglis!

> On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem
>>>> reported in early December in which STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED
>>>> would sometimes occur when there was a symlink in PATH:

>>> Yes, the first and 3rd entries are symlinks. I've had these symlinks in my 
>>> PATH for years.
>>> /home/MP1116/.aws/YYY/bin:/home/MP1116/bin -> .WPHOME/bin/
>>> .aws -> .WPHOME/.aws/.WPHOME -> Dropbox/Work_Projects/XXX
>>> # /etc/fstab
 >>> C:/Users /home none binary,user 0 0

>> I excised the 2 symlink-involved PATH elements and now Git runs great with 
>> v3.1.5 of the DLL. I'll try one of the snapshots at some point, but I am also
>> tempted to change my Bash function 'addPath()' to fully unroll symlinks
>> before adding.
>> https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/master/.functions#L144
> Resolving Cygwin paths is best done using readlink or realpath followed by 
> cygpath -alm then cygpath -auU to get canonical paths, as neither realpath nor
> cygpath do the complete job under Cygwin.

Can you provide examples? I find cygpath output satisfying so far, with
readlink if needs that bad.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, January 17, 2021 21:10:35

Sorry for my terrible english...

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