On Dec 11 21:36, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > I was testing the latest 1.7 DLL snapshot (1.7.2s(0.218/5/3) 20091209 > 12:02:30) and the current 1.7 one (that you get from setup-1.7.exe). I > am starting zsh and get the following error: "zsh: failed to create hard > link as lock file /home/thorsten/.zhistory.LOCK: operation not > permitted". > > This relates to the following setting in .zshrc: "HISTFILE=~/.zhistory". > Zsh starts but no history is available. Cygwin is located on a FAT32 > thumb drive.
That's why. FAT32 does not support hardlinks. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
