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

2020-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 08:06, Arthur Norman via Cygwin wrote: > This running on Windows 10 1909 and cygwin has been updated to the latest > version. The effect was also visible on a freshly installed minimal cygwin > put on an almost fresh Windows 10 VM. > > Cygwin these days seems to have a behaviour that con

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

2020-06-13 Thread Wayne Davison
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 /cygdriv

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

2020-06-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Wayne Davison! > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:05 AM Andrey Repin wrote: >> And you've got exactly what you asked for. > I think you missed the important part of the email. Distilled down, > this is wrong: > $ ln -s /cygdrive/C/Windows foo > $ readlink foo > /mnt/C/Windows The cygdrive p

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

2020-06-12 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:05 AM Andrey Repin wrote: > And you've got exactly what you asked for. I think you missed the important part of the email. Distilled down, this is wrong: $ ln -s /cygdrive/C/Windows foo $ readlink foo /mnt/C/Windows The symlink's value changed to a path that doesn't exi

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

2020-06-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Arthur Norman! > This running on Windows 10 1909 and cygwin has been updated to the latest > version. The effect was also visible on a freshly installed minimal cygwin > put on an almost fresh Windows 10 VM. > Cygwin these days seems to have a behaviour that confuses me regarding the

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

2020-06-12 Thread Arthur Norman via Cygwin
This running on Windows 10 1909 and cygwin has been updated to the latest version. The effect was also visible on a freshly installed minimal cygwin put on an almost fresh Windows 10 VM. Cygwin these days seems to have a behaviour that confuses me regarding the case of a disk name: ln -s "/