wsl does not respect Windows-side symlinks #5701

[Stanzilla]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22635.3130]

WSL Version

WSL-Version: 2.1.1.0 Kernelversion: 5.15.146.1-2 WSLg-Version: 1.0.60 MSRDC-Version: 1.2.5105 Direct3D-Version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore-Version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp Windows-Version: 10.0.22635.3130

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

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• WSL 1

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Other Software

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Repro Steps

See #5701

Expected Behavior

See #5701

Actual Behavior

See #5701

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View similar issues

Please view the issues below to see if they solve your problem, and if the issue describes your problem please consider closing this one and thumbs upping the other issue to help us prioritize it!

Open similar issues:

• Add Windows support for WSL symlinks (#12250), similarity score: 0.79
• Windows symlinks (mklink) on drvfs pointing to \wsl$... should resolve in WSL (#8385), similarity score: 0.77

Closed similar issues:

• wsl does not respect Windows-side symlinks (#5701), similarity score: 0.80
• symlinks from wsl2 to OneDrive are not seen as symlinks when viewed on another computer from wsl2 (#8481), similarity score: 0.79
• WSL treating symlinks as win32 junction (redux) (#4868), similarity score: 0.76

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[crramirez]

@Stanzilla could you please put commands or screenshots on how you are creating the links and how you are trying to access them? I made a test with the latest released version and it works as always:

[kotenok2000]

Looks like OP is trying to make a symlink like this: mklink /d c:\eli \wsl\Ubuntu-18.04\home\eli

[Stanzilla]

Yes, basically my use case is that a program running in WSL needs to follow symlinks created in Windows to a WSL drive

[crramirez]

I recommend, changing the title to be more specific, and add the examples to the description, so it can be noticed by maintainers. Even though you put the links to the other issue