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From:	Frank Redeker via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Am 12/12/2022 um 1:12 PM schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Dec 12 11:21, Frank Redeker via Cygwin wrote:
>> $ pwd
>> /cygdrive/s/ado
>>
>> $ realpath /cygdrive/s/ado/msadox.dll
>> /cygdrive/s/ado/msadox.dll
>>
>> $ realpath msadox.dll
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/System/ado/msadox.dll
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to restore the old behavior. Since with the new behavior my
>> tests no longer work.
> 
> It's not easy.  If we remove the new behaviour entirely, we break
> other scenarios which were broken in the old version.  While it
> *seems* easy to fix your specific scenario, it will break again
> as soon as the substitution drive is used inside a native symlink.
> 
> Virtual drive letters were always a problem and it doesn't get easier
> with Windows functions not allowing to specify whether one wants to
> follow symlinks or virt drives in inner path components or not.
> 
> Let's consider this problem again, but I don't see a quick and easy
> solution.
> 
> 
> Corinna
Hello Corinna, I am willing to create my own version, tailored to my needs.

It would be nice if you could provide me with the commit that was used 
to implement the new behavior. (I guess the change is found inside the
*git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git* repository)

Frank


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