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
I'm guessing that the error should be easily reproducible as I am running
on a pretty vanilla Vista + cygwin system. But if not, I can dig deeper
and provide more information.
The issue seems to be specific to Vista as the same hard link test works
fine on WinXP with these snapshot dlls.
FYI, I am using the snapshots for rsh/rlogin support under Vista (for rsh
to a device where it is not not feasible to run an ssh server). See
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00361.html for details.
Using the cygwin1-20070717.dll snapshot (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/) is
a suitable workaround for me since both rsh and hard links appear to be
functional.
Herb.
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