Re: 2.2.1: NTFS directory symlinks handling

[cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>]

On 8/21/2015 8:35 PM, Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5) wrote:
> It is known that cygwin has a naive interpretation for NTFS symlinks, by
> translating those paths directly. This works fine with most cases, but
> when you link stuffs under `/` to somewhere like `../cygwin/home`, it
> simply breaks.
> 
> I have a directory tree like this:
> 
> |- cygwin/
>   |- home/
>     |- Arthur/
>       |- .gnupg/ (mklink /D .gnupg \Users\Arthur\Appdata\Roaming\gnupg)
>       |- .ssh/   (mklink /D .ssh \Users\Arthur\.ssh)
>   |- tmp/
>     |- 1.txt
> |- cygwin64/
>   |- tmp@  (mklink /D tmp ..\cygwin\tmp)
>   |- home@ (mklink /D home ..\cygwin\home)
> 
> It appears that those `.gnupg` and `.ssh` with an absolute path to the
> drive root was interpreted correctly, like
> `/cygdrive/c/Users/Arthur/.ssh`, but cygwin64's /tmp and /home breaks,
> with the following manner described:
> 

I would suggest to stick to absolute paths.

What happens when you "dir ..\cygwin"?  I.E.: Is it a valid path to
begin with?

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