> Sorry, but there's only this or that, not both. Either we revert the
> entire change, including the native shortcut stuff, or we do it
> completely and fully, including handling virtual drives as symlinks.
I had success with just the following change (of course comments would
also need to be updated):
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index 4ebaf4dc6..53534b8b6 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -3670,8 +3670,7 @@ restart:
somewhere else, thus, it's a symlink in POSIX speak. */
if (upath.Length == 14) /* \??\X:\ */
{
- fileattr &= ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY;
- path_flags |= PATH_SYMLINK;
+ goto file_not_symlink;
}
/* For final paths differing in inner path components return
length as negative value. This informs path_conv::check
Treating mapped/subst drives as though they were not symlinks, without
messing with intermedate symlinks.
--
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