symbolic links that work with UNIX and Windows

[LewisPringle]

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• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)
  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.248]

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)
  in a directory which is mounted drivefs (e.g. /mnt/c/Sandbox/a/b/c)
  ln -s ../../Builds

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
  It works FINE in the unix shell
  but when I use a windows cmd shell I see
  dir
  ...
  03/01/2018 11:02 PM <JUNCTION> Builds [...]
  ...
  and cd Builds produces:
  The directory name is invalid.

• WSL, cygwin, and mklink all provide windows ways to create symbolic links. And NONE of them work with any of the others. This makes software development still quite painful, and hard to share a code base across different tool sets. In my view - this is the largest remaining impediment to using Windows for UNIX development.

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[LewisPringle]

OK - now I see this MAYBE fixed in
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/releases/tag/17046

So wondering when that will be released to the general public?

[onomatopellan]

Next update is called 1803 so if nothing weird happens it should be released next month.

[therealkenc]

#353 #1475 #2898

[fatfatson]

confirmed! the insider build 17120 is ok

[bclay1297]

Using most recent version of ms4w on windows 10 system,

I am trying to use symbolic links connect to data on a NAS. They appear to be ignored. The only error message says path is not found. The link was create with mklink /d. When I dir the path / link I see all of the data.