X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 49291385DC30 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=Denis-Excoffier.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=cygwin AT Denis-Excoffier DOT org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.80.23.2.2\)) Subject: Re: WSL symbolic links From: Denis Excoffier In-Reply-To: <20200326110059.GG3261@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 16:32:26 +0200 Message-Id: <9079D787-9329-4571-8377-77D497EE1725@Denis-Excoffier.org> References: <294944bd-757e-4bb8-6bcc-ceb8d9190ef9 AT towo DOT net> <20200326110059 DOT GG3261 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.80.23.2.2) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NEUTRAL 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 AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Corinna Vinschen , Denis Excoffier Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 034EXgU8012351 Hello, I tried the last snapshot (not announced) dated 20200403, and the new symbolic links don’t seem to work properly: % mkdir test % cd test % mkdir foo % cp /usr/bin/ls.exe foo/ls.exe % foo/ls foo % foo/ls.exe foo % ln -s foo bar % bar/ls bar/ls: Permission denied. % bar/ls.exe bar/ls.exe: Permission denied. % I’m on Windows 7, on a ntfs disk (binary,posix=0,user,nomount,auto). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- 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