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

Sat Apr 30 02:20:26 GMT 2022

On 2022年4月29日 18:27:45 -0500
Wes Barris wrote:
> On 4/29/2022 6:09 PM, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > On 2022年4月29日 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?

We are planning to release cygwin 3.3.5 in which the issue
has been fixed soon after a few ongoing issues will be settled.
-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>