Hi Mark, On Apr 15 23:53, Mark Geisert wrote: > After installing a recent DLL built from the git source tree I noticed: > > ~ ln -s /tmp/foo . > > ~ ls -l foo > lrwxrwxrwx 1 Mark None 12 Apr 15 23:44 foo -> /mnt/tmp/foo
Huh? That works for me, independently of /tmp/foo existing or not: $ ln -s /tmp/foo . $ ls -l foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna Users 8 Apr 16 10:38 foo -> /tmp/foo Since you're building the DLL yourself, can you please debug this with GDB? It would be very important to find out what on your system adds the /mnt prefix! It could occur in creating the symlink, that's in path.cc, function symlink_wsl(), or it could occur in reading the symlink, path.cc, function check_reparse_point_target(), in the else if (rp->ReparseTag == IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK) branch at line 2534. As for /mnt itself, it's the WSL equivalent to the cygdrive prefix. When creating WSL symlinks, Cygwin converts the cygdrive prefix to /mnt, and when reading WSL symlinks, a leading /mnt is converted to the current cygdrive prefix on the fly. We should just move further discussions to the cygwin-developers ML. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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