bug#51894: 27.2; GDB Gud support on Cygwin has trouble accessing shared files on Windows network drives.

[Ken Brown]

On 11/18/2021 2:53 AM, Guy Offer wrote:
> * Have the source pointed by a network drive (e.g. F:/source, etc.).
> * Install Cygwin on the local machine: (including make, X11, GNU Emacs 27.2, 
> gcc, packages etc.).
> * Download and compile gdb 11.1 (I had to compile myself to work with linux 
> target and build x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-gdb).
> * Activate gdb from emacs by : Alt-x, gdb, gdb -i=mi etc.

I don't have time to try to replicate this setup, nor do I have a Linux machine 
on my network.  But I did map a network drive and verify that there was no 
problem accessing it via the cygdrive prefix (e.g., 'ls /cygdrive/x' succeeds 
after X: is mapped to a folder that I can access on a networked Windows 
machine).  This answers a question that Eli asked earlier.

Ken