summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/path.cc10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index f2b5cdbf1..36aa8278f 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -1886,15 +1886,17 @@ symlink_wsl (const char *oldpath, path_conv &win32_newpath)
rpl->ReparseTag = IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK;
rpl->Reserved = 0;
rpl->LxSymlinkReparseBuffer.FileType = 2;
- /* Convert cygdrive prefix to "/mnt" for WSL compatibility. */
- if (path_prefix_p (mount_table->cygdrive, oldpath,
- mount_table->cygdrive_len, false))
+ /* Convert cygdrive prefix to "/mnt" for WSL compatibility, but only if
+ cygdrive prefix is not "/", otherwise suffer random "/mnt" symlinks... */
+ if (mount_table->cygdrive_len > 1
+ && path_prefix_p (mount_table->cygdrive, oldpath,
+ mount_table->cygdrive_len, false))
stpcpy (stpcpy (path_buf, "/mnt"),
oldpath + mount_table->cygdrive_len - 1);
else
*stpncpy (path_buf, oldpath, max_pathlen) = '\0';
/* Convert target path to UTF-16 and then back to UTF-8 to make sure the
- WSL symlink is in UTF-8, independet of the current Cygwin codeset. */
+ WSL symlink is in UTF-8, independent of the current Cygwin codeset. */
sys_mbstowcs (utf16, NT_MAX_PATH, path_buf);
len = WideCharToMultiByte (CP_UTF8, 0, utf16, -1, path_buf, max_pathlen,
NULL, NULL);