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 confuses me regarding the > case of a disk name: > > > ln -s "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" pf1 > > ln -s "/cygdrive/C/Program Files" pf2 > > ls -l pf* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 acn1 None 25 Jun 12 07:37 pf1 -> /cygdrive/c/Program Files > lrwxrwxrwx 1 acn1 None 20 Jun 12 07:37 pf2 -> /mnt/C/Program Files > > cygpath -ma ./pf1 > C:/cygwin64/home/acn1/pf1 > > You see from the above that when I use cygpath to convert from a cygwin name > the drive letter C: is returned in upper case. When that ends up after > "/cygdrive" the path behaves as I expect almost everywhere by is treated > specially for symbolic links. This seems to be a relatively new behaviour > and it bit me! > > [Use-case: I wanted to convert cygwin paths to be "very absolute" so that eg
If you want "very absolute" paths, use something like ln -s /proc/cygdrive/c/... /proc/cygdrive always exists, even if you change the cygdrive prefix. It's a virtual symlink to the actual cygdrive prefix. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
