>From that test, it sounds like Cygwin is not resolving its internal
symlinks correctly.  If you tried to do an opendir on "C:\\", does
that work?  Note that with the Windows paths, you're definitely going
to need to escape (backslash) every backslash in the directory name.

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:
> / ok
> /cygdrive - Fails
> /cygdrive/c fails
> /home Fails
> /home/paul Fails
> . Ok
>
> Paul
>
> On May 9, 2015 2:22 PM, "Tilghman Lesher" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Can you do an opendir on something higher in the chain?  I'd suggest
>> something along the lines of "/cygdrive/c", or something like that, to
>> see if the problem is the opendir command itself, or if it's something
>> higher.  For that matter, can you do an opendir on "/"?
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm sure this is a SMDH moment... but I have a Perl program that does an
>> > opendir to get the list of files.  Been running fine for years under
>> > Cygwin.
>> > I just installed Cygwin64.  Tried to run it.  opendir fails with "No
>> > such
>> > file or directory".
>> >
>> > Doing a command line   ls same-dir-path   works fine.
>> >
>> > It is outside C:\Cygwin64\ so the path is a
>> > /cygdrive/c/some/other/dir/....
>> > but that shouldn't matter.  (Also tried from a symbolic link)
>> >
>> > I'm sure it is something I'm doing wrong, but this is so simple, I don't
>> > know what I could be doing wrong, or failing to check.  Any thoughts?
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
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