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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 00:32:49 +0900
From: Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>
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Subject: Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:57:56 +0100
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  7 09:46, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > I think '/cygdrive/z/..' should be '/cygdrive', however,
> > in current cygwin, it is interpreted into '//VBoxSrv'.
> > 
> > Is this as you intended?
> > 
> > With my patch which stops to treat UNC path as symlink,
> > '/cygdrive/z/..' returns '/cygdrive'.
> 
> Yeah, but...
> 
> ...what bugs me is that *every* UNC path is treated this way with
> that patch.  If you have a path like /cygdrive/x/a/b/c, with x:
> being a virtual drive pointing to //server/share, and with "b"
> being a symlink to "syml", what you get back is either
> 
>   //server/share/a/syml/c
> 
> without, or
> 
>   /cygdrive/x/a/b/c
> 
> with your patch.  What we would like to get back is
> 
>   /cygdrive/x/a/syml/c

With my patch, above case behaves like:

$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
D: on /cygdrive/d type iso9660 (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
Z: on /cygdrive/z type vboxsharedfolderfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
$ cd /cygdrive/z
$ mkdir -p aa/syml/cc
$ ln -s syml aa/bb
$ cd aa/bb/cc
$ /bin/pwd
/cygdrive/z/aa/syml/cc
$

Isn't this what you would like?


> So the real problem is not that we have an UNC path, but the fact that
> the drive letter expression is (correctly, but unwanted) converted to
> the matching UNC path by GetFinalPathNameByHandle.
> 
> Bottom line is, your patch is ok, please apply.  It would be nice,
> though, if we could just avoid the drive: -> UNC path conversion and
> keep the rest.


-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>

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