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Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2022 15:47:25 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, BRISLANE Mark!

> We had this issue in 3.3.3 and is down as being fixed in 3.3.4-2 but
> perhaps our scenario is slightly different because it's still happening.
> SERVER1 has a folder on D: called folder 1, which is a symlink to
> "\\server2\share\folder1" - created with mklink /D folder1 \\server2\share\folder1

> DOMAIN+Administrator AT SERVER1 /cygdrive/d
> $ ls -l
> total 3
> drwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators SERVER1+None     0 Jan 28 11:03 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
> d---rwx---+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM                0 Jan 25 23:07 'System Volume Information'
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators DOMAIN+Domain Users   32 Nov  9 10:52  folder1 -> //server2/share/folder1

> DOMAIN+Administrator AT SERVER1 /cygdrive/d
> $ cd folder1

> DOMAIN+Administrator AT SERVER1 /cygdrive/d/folder1
> $ cmd
> '\\server2\share\folder1'
> CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
> (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

> C:\Windows>

> This used to work in older versions of Cygwin.

The interesting part is that the behavior is dependent on sequence of events.

`mintty bash -i` in a directory:

> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/d/cygwin
> $ cmd
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> D:\cygwin> exit
>
> $ cd $( pwd )
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/d/cygwin
> $ cmd
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> \\DAEMON1.DARKDRAGON.LAN\arc\cygwin>


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 15:28:28

Sorry for my terrible english...


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