On 06/05/2026 13:46, Jonathan Clark via Cygwin wrote:
I have a Windows11 box and an Android phone. If I stick a USB cable between the two then the phone filesystems show up on the PC in File Explorer, but *not* as a mount point. No mount point means no access for Cygwin processes (and there may be other hurdles too, that's as far as I got). I am reasonably sure that in Windows10 it *was* a mount point, and I had no problems with access.
I'm still running Windows 10 and the behaviour there is the same for me, so I don't think it's a 10/11 thing. I think a loooooong time ago some Android devices used to do what you describe, but I haven't seen it recently, they all seem to use the nasty MTP mode now. I'd also be curious to hear if others have had different experiences though.
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