X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B2639AC.1060708@byu.net> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:12:12 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh References: <20091214105829.GE8059@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Thorsten Kampe on 12/14/2009 5:22 AM: >> 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... It _didn't_ work. In 1.5, you ended up creating a copy, which meant there was no locking after all. If zsh then depended on that attempt at locking working, you would have gotten into inconsistent states. Your best bet now might be to report this as an upstream bug to zsh, and recommend that they use an alternative approach, such as symlink locking (the way emacs does things), if hard link locking doesn't work because of the underlying file system. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksmOawACgkQ84KuGfSFAYA2pwCgmtM6fw/F8WM2CjbVtbNH1Zgs hI8An3emaP4qePXhEf4G2F3IBRvEWUCS =LQ5E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple