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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject:  Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh
Date:  Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:22:12 +0100
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* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:58:29 +0100)
> On Dec 11 21:36, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was testing the latest 1.7 DLL snapshot (1.7.2s(0.218/5/3) 20091209 
> > 12:02:30) and the current 1.7 one (that you get from setup-1.7.exe). I 
> > am starting zsh and get the following error: "zsh: failed to create hard 
> > link as lock file /home/thorsten/.zhistory.LOCK: operation not 
> > permitted".
> > 
> > This relates to the following setting in .zshrc: "HISTFILE=~/.zhistory". 
> > Zsh starts but no history is available. Cygwin is located on a FAT32 
> > thumb drive.
> 
> That's why.  FAT32 does not support hardlinks.

Well, then why don't I get this error with the latest 1.5 DLL? It's the 
same thumb drive, the same installation...

I used to test 1.7 DLLs and in some snapshot the error was introduced. 

Thorsten


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