Unable to add mount for Development Drive attached as Junction

[MartinSGill]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.3737]

WSL Version

2.1.5.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.146.1-2

Distro Version

Ubuntu-24.04

Other Software

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Repro Steps

A lot of existing tooling expects source to be in a certain folder. To benefit from the Dev Drive feature, I create an additional mount in the old, expected folder in c:\

1. Create a Dev Drive
2. Mount it a drive (e.g. p:)
3. Mount it into the filesystem e.g. c:\projects
4. cd into a directory in c:\projects
5. type wsl

Expected Behavior

WSL starts in folder /mnt/c/projects/ folder

Actual Behavior

<3>WSL (9499) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:496: chdir(/mnt/c/Projects) failed 5
and I'm ~

Note: when under p:\ WSL correctly starts in /mnt/p/...

Diagnostic Logs

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