realpath on Cygwin is not same as PWD

Question

$ pwd
/home/Thomas/Utveckling/Cgreen/thoni56/cgreen
$ realpath .
/cygdrive/c/Users/Thomas/Utveckling/Cgreen/thoni56/cgreen
$ cygpath -a .
/cygdrive/c/Users/Thomas/Utveckling/Cgreen/thoni56/cgreen/

Why is this? Why is absolute path from the root /cygdrive and not /?

How do I get an absolute path that starts with /home from a relative path, such as .., if I'm in that tree?

yes, it turned out that I did. too long ago... Could you write an answer that I can acccept? — thoni56, May 03 '16 at 19:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '16 at 20:01

It is the effect of the presence of a link in the path. Eg:

ls -ld /pub /tmp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 marco Administrators 19 Jun 26  2014 /pub -> /cygdrive/e/cyg_pub
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 marco Administrators  0 May  2 17:49 /tmp

$ realpath /pub /tmp
/cygdrive/e/cyg_pub
/tmp

realpath on Cygwin is not same as PWD

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