X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:48:46 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: ln command in Cygwin (hard links) From: John Gilmartin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me? (Apologies if I've missed something obvious. I am admittedly a little rusty. I have Googled and checked the mailing list archives though, and can't find anything matching these symptoms.) John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~ $ mkdir links John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~ $ cd links John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links $ touch hardlink1 John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links $ ln -s hardlink1 symlink1 John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2 ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' => `hardlink1': Operation not permitted John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links $ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 1 John None 0 2010-03-03 18:20 . John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links $ whoami John John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links $ -- 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