Using Cygwin installation on network share in CI fails

Fri May 23 21:42:21 GMT 2025

On Friday, May 23, 2025 at 09:04:11 AM EDT, Aurélien Couderc via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: 
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>> No one else is reporting any such problems, so it is your environment, with your
>> network share, that is now having issues.
>>I think no one reported it because it is a new problem, and Cygwin is
>not updated every week

Z:\cygtest>.\bin\bash.exe -c 'ls -l ; echo $?
./bin/bash: line 1: ls: command not found
127
Z:\cygtest>.\bin\bash.exe -c '/bin/ls -l ; echo $?
total 1629
-r-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group      88 May 23 20:26 Cygwin.bat
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 20:14 bin
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 19:38 dev
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 20:28 etc
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 19:38 home
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 19:34 https%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 20:14 lib
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 20:08 sbin
-rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group 1572280 May 23 19:33 setup-x86_64.exe
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 19:38 tmp
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 20:06 usr
dr-xrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators Unknown+Group       0 May 23 20:00 var
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It looks like the PATH is not set.  Z: is a remote drive...
Here it is on a local drive:
C:\cygwin64>set PATH=c:\Windows;c:\Windows\system32
C:\cygwin64>.\bin\bash.exe -c 'ls -l; echo $?'
./bin/bash: line 1: ls: command not found
127
Kevin