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From: Frank Fesevur <ffes AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 22:33:28 +0200
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Subject: vim can't write /etc/hosts
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Hi,

On my Win81 machine I tried to edit /etc/hosts with vim. When I try to
write the file I get this error:
"/etc/hosts" E166: Can't open linked file for writing

Since /etc/hosts is a symlink to
/cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts so I tried to edit the
file with the full path but that fails as well:
"/cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" E212: Can't open file
for writing

I did all this with my mintty started as administrator:
uid=1000(Frank) gid=513(Geen)
groups=513(Geen),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Gebruikers)

I can edit the file starting my Notepad++ as administrator and open file.

A bit surprising but this works:

Frank AT PC7 /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/drivers/etc
# echo "# test" >> hosts

Why can't vim write the file, or even better the symlinked file? I'm
quite sure editing the symlink works in Win7, but can try tomorrow.

Regards,
Frank

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