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I've recently installed cygwin using the web installer, and have found an error in the way that cygpath translates junction point paths from *nix to Windows paths when dealing with a junction point. If you've got a junction point (let's call it JUNC, located at c:\example\junc ) and a real folder TARG (located at c:\example\TARG ) and your junction point points to TARG: cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/example/junc will give you c:\example\TARG as your output instead. This leaves cygpath completely unable to translate the original path of an NTFS junction. This is proving to be a problem for me (I'm trying to use the output of cygpath for the equivalent of a backtick operation in another script...) Variations on this produce similar results, for example cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/example/junc/subfolder will give you c:\example\TARG\subfolder However, the reverse (win to nix) works fine: cygpath "c:\example\junc" gives you /cygdrive/c/example/junc without the faulty translation. Interestingly enough, cygpath does not normally seem to care whether or not a folder really exists. cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/thisdirisnotreal/blah will give you c:\thisdirisnotreal\blah even if "thisdirisnotreal" doesn't exist in the filesystem. It is only in this special case that cygpath seems to care what is really in its path. I haven't taken a look at the C source yet, so I'm not sure whether this problem lies in cygpath itself or the cygwin API layer. -Pierce Morton
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