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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:17:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: lnn, a native symlink wrapper script (Was: fstab not automounting...)
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On Oct 18 13:08, Warren wrote:
> On 10/18/2013 12:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> >- The user token contains a privilege, but it's disabled.
> >
> >   The process can not perform the dangerous action secured by that
> >   privilege.  But it can enable the privilege if it wants to perform
> >   that action.
>=20
> Thanks for the explanation.
>=20
> I tried two machines here and apparently the privilege can be set on
> both of them without being Administrator,

Are you sure?  Did you test it by running

  $ CYGWIN=3Dwinsymlinks:native ln -s foo bar

by any chance?  If so, there's a surprise waiting for you.  The symlinks
will be generated, but they are Cygwin default symlinks, not native
symlinks.  Try this instead

  $ CYGWIN=3Dwinsymlinks:nativestrict ln -s foo bar

and see the user's guide:

  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

> so I don't even know if
> it's worth chasing this test.  That is, I don't know if ln(1) prints
> a helpful error when the link cannot be created.  If it says
> something vague like "permission denied", I'm thinking it would be
> helpful to pre-diagnose the problem in the wrapper script.

No, it's the much better "Operation not permitted" (EPERM).  It's
perfectly matching the situation so I don't think any further diagnosis
is necessary (unless you want to explain the user exactly what's going
on).  But still, it will only occur with CYGWIN=3Dwinsymlinks:nativestrict,
see above.


Corinna

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