Deleting a directory with the same name as a shortcut deletes everything in CWD

[Oskar Skog]

On 2022-08-09 22:52, Ken Brown wrote:
> I think the best fix is to set res = 0 at the beginning of the loop and 
> to remove a "res = -1" that occurs later.  I've sent a patch to 
> cygwin-patches.
> 
> Ken
> 

 From https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2022q3/011994.html
 > Currently it is possible for symlink_info::check to return -1 in case
 > we're searching for foo and find foo.lnk that is not a shortcut.

Does it matter that it is *not* a shortcut for this patch to work?

I first experienced this issue using an actual shortcut, but simplified
the reproduction code.

mkshortcut -n Foo.lnk ...   ->  touch Foo.lnk
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