If the cygdrive prefix is /, then the following happens right now: $ ln -s /tmp/foo . $ ls -l foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 12 Apr 15 23:44 foo -> /mnt/tmp/foo Fix this by skipping cygdrive prefix conversion to WSL drive prefix "/mnt", if the cygdrive prefix is just "/". There's no satisfying way to do the right thing all the time in this case anyway. For a description and the alternatives, see https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-developers/2020-April/011859.html Also, fix a typo in a comment. Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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