X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:42:27 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to read history on latest Cygwin Message-ID: <20091214154227.GC7245@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:07:52PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >Hi, > >the new Cygwin 1.7 release is soon to be released. According to Cygwin >Project Co-Leader Corinna Vinschen, Cygwin will drop "fake support" for >emulating hardlinks on FAT32: "Hardlinks on FAT [...] have been faked in >1.5 by copying the file. The decision was made a couple of weeks back to >drop this fake since the application should know that the underlying >filesystem is not capable of creating hardlinks." > >The result of that is that I'm not able to run zsh "portable" from a >FAT32 USB thumb drive: "zsh: failed to create hard link as lock file >/home/thorsten/.zhistory.LOCK: operation not permitted". (Zsh is running >but history is neither saved nor written). histfcntllock also results in >errors. > >"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." > >Bash does not exihibit the error. Why are you sending this here when Corinna suggested sending it as an upstream bug? Typo? cgf -- 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