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Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:23:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots
- References: <0ML3Dg-1JGFfa2pkd-0005xb@mx.kundenserver.de> <20080121145327.GB30866@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 21 15:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 19 07:30, Herb Maeder wrote:
> > I'm seeing a error when creating hard links under Vista using the
> > cygwin1.dll snapshots starting at cygwin1-20070802.dll (through at
> > least cygwin1-20080112.dll).
> >
> > To reproduce:
> > * stop/exit all cygwin processes
> > * replace bin/cygwin1.dll with one of the snapshot dlls above
> > * fire up bash and run the following commands:
> > % rm -rf foo bar
> > % touch foo
> > % ln foo bar
> > ln: creating hard link `bar' => `foo': Permission denied
>
> Thanks for the report. I fixed this in CVS. As it turned out, you
> can't open a file with access flags set to 0. ZwOpenFile requires at
^^^^^
...in Vista/Longhorn.
> least READ_CONTROL access.
^^^^
...in Vista/Longhorn. 0 works fine in earlier
Windows versions.
Corinna
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