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Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots
- From: Herb Maeder <maeder at maeder dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:33:41 -0800
- Subject: Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots
On Jan 21 16:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
Excellent! Thank you very much for the explanation and the quick fix.
Herb.
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