On Apr 23 01:52, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hello, > > Just wanted to share that while installing Cygwin64 on a clean PC, setup > threw me the following postinstall errors: > > 2013/04/22 21:38:33 running: C:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > "/etc/postinstall/bash.sh" > ln: failed to create symbolic link `/dev/stdin': Read-only file system > ln: failed to create symbolic link `/dev/stdout': Read-only file system > ln: failed to create symbolic link `/dev/stderr': Read-only file system > ln: failed to create symbolic link `/dev/fd': Read-only file system > 2013/04/22 21:38:33 abnormal exit: exit code=1
/dev is a bastard directory. If it not exists on the filesystem, it is faked within Cygwin, but then it is a read-only filesystem. If it exists on the filesystem, the device entries are faked by Cygwin, but you can also add your own entries in /dev. The above happens when /dev doesn't exist on the filesystem. I didn't get this error in my three test installations. Usually /dev is generated by the 000-cygwin-post-install.sh postinstall script, since it also has to create the /dev/smh and /dev/mqueue subdirs. I don't know why it failed for you, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer 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
