On Jan 21 15:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 19 07:30, Herb Maeder wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks for the report. I fixed this in CVS. As it turned out, you > can't open a file with access flags set to 0. ZwOpenFile requires at ^^^^^ ...in Vista/Longhorn.
> least READ_CONTROL access. ^^^^ ...in Vista/Longhorn. 0 works fine in earlier Windows versions. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/