bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Wes Barris]

On 4/29/2022 6:09 PM, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:21:01 -0500
> Wes Barris wrote:
>> For the past couple of months the latest versions of cygwin produce this error
>> when attempting to reference a network drive.  There have been a couple of other
>> threads reporting this and talk about patches.  Is there a fix coming for this
>> in the production version of cygwin?
>>
>> $ cd /cygdrive/w
>> bash: cd: /cygdrive/w: Too many levels of symbolic links
>> $ mount
>> C:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> C:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> C:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> M: on /cygdrive/m type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> P: on /cygdrive/p type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> S: on /cygdrive/s type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> V: on /cygdrive/v type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> W: on /cygdrive/w type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> 
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-April/251332.html
> 

Thanks.  Yes, that post describes what is happening to me.  Is there a fix 
coming for this?
-- 
Wes Barris

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