On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > Greetings, Aurélien Couderc! > > > Cygwin: > > > Using Cygwin install on network share in CI fails. > > This seems to be a recent regression, as this was working a year before. > > > Now on Windows 10 with Cygwin 3.6.1 it fails with error 127. > > > Test case, using cmd.exe: > > > curl --remote-name "https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe"; > > .\setup-x86_64.exe -q --no-write-registry --no-admin --root %cd% > > --no-desktop --site "https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin"; > > .\bin\bash.exe -c 'ls -l ; echo $?' > > > Expected result: > > ls -l output, with exit code 0 > > > Actual result: > > exit code 127 > > > I am not good in debugging Cygwin, but it looks like .\bin\cygwin1.dll > > just gives up at some point. > > Wait-wait-wait. > You are installing Cygwin TO a network share of the Cygwin distribution is > located on a share and you are installing it to a local drive? > > The latter is possible, the former is a very, very, VERY BAD IDEA.
We always install Cygwin on a network drive, the CI runs as a separate user and the IT department does not install Cygwin on the machines itself. The test machines also do not have local users, all users come from N:, and have their home dirs on N: (Windows network share). To clarify: REM N: is a Windows network drive REM Replace YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_INDEX with year, month, day, hour, minute, second and index number of test mkdir N:\ci\runYYYYMMDDHHMMSS_INDEX cd N:\ci\runYYYYMMDDHHMMSS_INDEX REM install Cygwin for this test .\setup-x86_64.exe -q --no-write-registry --no-admin --root %cd% --no-desktop --site "https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin"; REM run tests .\bin\bash.exe -c 'ls -l ; echo $?' This has been working since at least 2021 (Cygwin 3.3.0), but my colleagues tell me that this even worked in 2016. Aurélien -- Aurélien Couderc <aurelien.couderc2...@gmail.com> Big Data/Data mining expert, chess enthusiast -- 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
