X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:23:44 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots Message-ID: <20080121152344.GG30866@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0ML3Dg-1JGFfa2pkd-0005xb@mx.kundenserver.de> <20080121145327.GB30866@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080121145327.GB30866@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jan 21 15:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 19 07:30, Herb Maeder wrote: > > I'm seeing a error when creating hard links under Vista using the > > cygwin1.dll snapshots starting at cygwin1-20070802.dll (through at > > least cygwin1-20080112.dll). > > > > To reproduce: > > * stop/exit all cygwin processes > > * replace bin/cygwin1.dll with one of the snapshot dlls above > > * fire up bash and run the following commands: > > % rm -rf foo bar > > % touch foo > > % ln foo bar > > ln: creating hard link `bar' => `foo': Permission denied > > Thanks for the report. I fixed this in CVS. As it turned out, you > can't open a file with access flags set to 0. ZwOpenFile requires at ^^^^^ ...in Vista/Longhorn. > least READ_CONTROL access. ^^^^ ...in Vista/Longhorn. 0 works fine in earlier Windows versions. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/