* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:58:29 +0100) > 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.
Well, then why don't I get this error with the latest 1.5 DLL? It's the same thumb drive, the same installation... I used to test 1.7 DLLs and in some snapshot the error was introduced. Thorsten -- 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
