ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Mar 3 18:59:00 GMT 2010


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@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~
> $ mkdir links
>
> John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~
> $ cd links
>
> John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links
> $ touch hardlink1
>
> John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links
> $ ln -s hardlink1 symlink1
>
> John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links
> $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2
> ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' =>  `hardlink1': Operation not permitted
>
> John@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~/links
> $ ls -ld .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 John None 0 2010-03-03 18:20 .
>
> John@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. ;-)

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