On Jan 21 16:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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.
Excellent! Thank you very much for the explanation and the quick fix. Herb. -- 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/
