Ah....
I have my cygwin "cygdrive path prefix" set to "/"
mount -p
Prefix Type Flags / user binmode You should be able to set it once:
mount -c /
I also have my "cygwin" installed in "C:\" not "C:\cygwin". With those two changes, my cygwin and windows paths are identical (except for backslash or forward slash). Forgot about that -- have had it in root for over 10 years...since I first installed cygwin. FWIW -- I **might** call this a minor bug (or feature deficit). If you ahve native mode set for the symlinks, then, I would argue that it shouldn't insert a "cygwin/c" in the path... Windows won't let you create a symlink to a non-existent path (you can on unix or linux), so when it fails for any reason -- cygwin falls back to storing the link in a file.
