On 9/11/2018 11:50 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> On 9/10/2018 12:06 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>> This report originates from a ticket created on Fish Github account here: >>>> https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2590 >>>> The issue is, that for some reason, running fish shell fails with >>>> PermissionDenied error if the home directory is a Windows Junction. >>> >>> Unfortunately I don't know how to help with this. fish works fine except in >>> this case where the directory ~/.config/fish is somewhere under a Windows >>> junction. Since I don't know how to solve that, I asked Marcin to report >>> the problem here. >>> >> >> A windows `junction` and not a `symlink`? They're not the same thing. > > Note that I'm not the one who has this problem, but my understanding is > that it happens when the ~/.config/fish is somewhere under a Windows > junction, not a symlink. > >> If you truly mean `junction` then the issue is yours to fix. > > It's true that the user could avoid the problem by changing their file > systems so that ~/.config/fish isn't under a junction point. But I don't > think they should have to do that. > > To me it seems like a bug that rename2() is failing when the target file is > under a junction point. >
See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks to determine if you can find a solution. In general though junctions are treated as symlinks while traveling into the directory. However the file system attributes are specific and required as described in the document I pointed to above. -- cyg Simple -- 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
