X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4B8EF6C3.2020006@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:54:43 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links) References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 3/3/2010 1:48 PM, John Gilmartin wrote: > 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 AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~ > $ mkdir links > > John AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~ > $ cd links > > John AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links > $ touch hardlink1 > > John AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links > $ ln -s hardlink1 symlink1 > > John AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links > $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2 > ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' => `hardlink1': Operation not permitted > > John AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links > $ ls -ld . > drwxr-xr-x 1 John None 0 2010-03-03 18:20 . > > John AT acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links > $ whoami > John Please read the problem reporting guidelines found here: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html There's not enough information in this report to do more than make WAGs. I'm not going to do that here though. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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