Starting CMD from a bash shell with current directory on a mounted/network drive results in an incorrect current directory

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 13 20:06, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:53:41 -0000
> "john daintree" wrote:
> > I've just upgraded a machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Part of my work
> > process is now broken because when starting cmd from Cygwin with the current
> > directory on a mounted drive I get the following error/warning/issue:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > /cygdrive/j$ cmd
> > 
> > '\\nas00.<redacted>\devt\users\johnd'
> > 
> > CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> > 
> > UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> > 
> > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.348]
> > 
> > (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > C:\Windows>
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The drive J: is mounted as something on our network (I've redacted a bit of
> > the path, for probably no good reason)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a workaround? Or is this something that can be fixed in Cygwin?
> 
> Thanks for the report. This was already fixed recently in git head.
> 
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-December/250153.html
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q4/011583.html
> 
> Please wait for the next cygwin release or new developers snapshot.

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Corinna