X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 4AE103861C58 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=towo.net Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=towo@towo.net To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thomas Wolff Subject: WSL symbolic links Message-ID: <294944bd-757e-4bb8-6bcc-ceb8d9190ef9@towo.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:00:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:asJXBSYAzG6LDggxvZlCwwjCnz8A9U0GmXpTrpx1bV9+oITQS3n tvbhHWRuo4PmKRBqos+R/SM2Y7wQPquHc/HC8f11kRaUUnYmJxVQjG30Zt91rvT3NGRXPyd YAtt8VsMZnvYg7xLYF8EpUhtwhQ0qVpbqHqDCP/vwUhGxF7APjcLFaP1tUltN4eu61IA68f BDmZwuH7SWW9REwQtlz8Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:CZo3zNgszak=:wrjsvOpj/im+CunA1XDJJ0 vjeZosudsEMujEYSyW5BO9eMrfqC3nxa9U+q7KLJ4747wlNDYPdJVKAe9BRGgZL5s06tIU6pE VBdc/cDn4pHbYGm9vxixO0fDQpYUzEgKR/gXFbUEe4RUIhE2gBhe9yHydmki504CScC+qgkgf r/Lays6wZFRIM+yOyxx69dMq4tQVPpSFaRnasFM6JXzehzn8uoXiJ4AfC5CqSPynRGm5QO8nt g6ltx+wXVfxWWEw6O4pMnlf5a9weNX+4/dbe5kIdDSw4IR8FL4aoUH+4iwg9zvCaq7pfYS8Rm 1Rv3NoahGFEA2hsxwbp/hhacD+s4NQ9GX7PJ5yPhbRvhCyi7+WKqCqd/rVFf4GgI/C17C5ZV9 95luqK8PpojYxBaTVzGogL3bp48rRcH1GMCAV9NdjA9mV3nWVg7XYaHvW4miftiwV6SGFhsnN vvO6BLWTmp3IIWhwdnOaCWS0au3rAkK0mj/WREi8W/iWhw+ils33TWmxs8s3mEvzPPALljtut uJM0xhh0nyi77O7ij56m+HV5U2jVQo7U4ZagGs19myFPqDHdIMOecWJtwsCQr6qCLJiy3vMf8 +er0EW9M5r/trnvneSmObMLfa0SpKWjHqZSDeG82DdHDLhxTpLYSZ3eohvjCemCZSlKLmvLUt D/qnomQaT30bEwQe12y3ZnPWujDHICnLl2O+Ht1W1kMOxNg1ZsGiKdrC/4iSHGzn9VDElpgnp cXYg+oLtVcci3cFCnq3b+t4FcsNSQBn128wyR6E1e4ZHvFqOxslF+1sAHSHyJ0ufT5Q+fTtRo W6gKc/5D+ZgVdvS1YPAD5RkjGHkzfaiwAPhCIXAiHruuipWahI= X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, BODY_8BITS, GARBLED_BODY, GIT_PATCH_2, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Sender: "Cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 02Q90tpV005063 A symbolic link created with WSL is neither interpreted in cygwin nor can it be deleted: > touch file > wsl ln -s file link > wsl ls -l link lrwxrwxrwx    1 towo     towo             1 Mar 26 08:56 link -> file > ls -l link -rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Mar 26 00:00 link > rm -f link /bin/rm: cannot remove 'link': Permission denied (even as admin) > cmd /c del link works. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple