ls \\\\\?\\DRIVE\\ Aborted (core dumped)

Mon Sep 23 23:24:00 GMT 2019

Greetings, Brian Inglis!
> On 2019年09月23日 09:02, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 9/23/2019 10:42 AM, Mark Zhitomirski wrote:
>>> While trying different path names I've hit the following crash:
>>>>>> $ ls \\\\\?\\DRIVE\\
>>> assertion "p >= path" failed: file
>>> "/home/corinna/src/cygwin/cygwin-3.0.7/cygwin-3.0.7-1.x86_64/src/newlib-cygwin/winsup/cygwin/path.cc",
>>> line 2916, function: int symlink_info::check(char*, const
>>> suffix_info*, fs_info&, path_conv_handle&)
>>> Aborted (core dumped)

$ ls -ld \\\\\?\\C:\\
drwxr-xr-x 1 anrdaemon None 0 сен 13 23:19 '\\?\C:\'
WJFFM
>> Thanks for the report. I can confirm the crash. I'll look into it.

> Although:

> $ ll $SYSTEMDRIVE\\

> lists normally, the owner and group is the current user, whereas the correct
> owners and groups are shown by:

> $ ll /proc/cygdrive/c/

That did not work for me, both show current user:group.
For reference,
fstab:
none / cygdrive noacl,binary,nouser,posix=0 0 0
$ mount
…
C: on /c type ntfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,noumount,auto)
> and Cygwin really does not like the entries in:

> $ ll \\\\\?\\*\\

> use of any name instead of *, or none causes a crash:

> $ ll \\\\\?\\Boot\\

> $ ll \\\\\?\\

I wonder, what have you tried to reach here?
-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 1:15:36
Sorry for my terrible english...
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