Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.36, neofelis, , 207.15.133.36 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 09:00:45(EDT) on April 18, 2000 From: Pierre Abbat To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: broken 'ln' behavior Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:56:01 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <38FC3A26.228D9C57@sophia.8x8.com> In-Reply-To: <38FC3A26.228D9C57@sophia.8x8.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0004180900510M.00837@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Jeremey Fischer wrote: >Put simply, I cant make a hard link between directories. Are you doing this on vfat or ntfs? Vfat doesn't allow hard links (it's physically possible but considered an error). But the error I got on Linux was: [root@neofelis floppy]# mkdir aoeu [root@neofelis floppy]# ln aoeu snth ln: aoeu: hard link not allowed for directory [root@neofelis floppy]# phma -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com