X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=ttrqFHe4oi/796uB +zhbisl/7Gyq+P15Nabt8qFxykF+GCAJjQOcty2hCn6AaTrSD9+XUPZuTlPCPEW7 s5mSjFcwUB67bpptBIlik/xzqwk/CE86RvDIvR5AYmXjWnE+e+QGs+RAedsqLe5S H9aSbMx7mz8U2ZcJ34KHNGUHM7s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=lzkzKqG79AnOw3G7g+vX8W Zzbzg=; b=hEP7f2vohBXY34jHILCHIftL2yUodeveOzZ3nmA4G1/5t3bofPzqwf p3cMcj/2U5lhtJdzwekya+u89x/zVSXQO6++hc3/pnHb/noRlaPwUwXSM83to0EA gr213oTFIlYf1uPdQShS5jpaPHum1Gk8IDrYGVcWKa/n+wJaKm2eM= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=elevation, H*M:72f9, wsl, Hx-languages-length:899 X-HELO: scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu Subject: Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4b5447f2-a1fe-925e-5e3d-6692347374ad AT kit DOT edu> From: Till Riedel Message-ID: <60bf66d9-d467-3cac-72f9-7823d1c1c32a@teco.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:26:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4b5447f2-a1fe-925e-5e3d-6692347374ad@kit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I was really excited to hear this! I tried to export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict" and create symlink without elevation and failed on cygwin 2.8.0 (checked that "cmd /C mklink" works as expected in Windows 10 Creators Update Developer Mode). Any ideas if there are any extra checks that lead to "Operation not permitted"? Windows seemingly even allows symlinks to nonexistent files (I somehow think there was a problem with that in the past). For me personally this would a strong reason to switch to real symlinks. Best regards, Till Am 13.04.2017 um 0:29 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: > When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for symlink > creation is disabled: > > https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#DXz6icKZOkEozgYR.97 > > This was necessary for symlink creation within WSL to work. -- 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