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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 05:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170424170708.GD8532@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fa058a7-2655-29ab-3033-993dbc7b4386@gmail.com>

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On Apr 24 18:52, David Macek wrote:
> > ver
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mew 2.8.1(0.310/5/3)  x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> === Developer mode DISabled, non-elevated Administrators account
> 
> > echo > foo
> > mklink bar foo
> You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.
> 
> $ export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict"
> $ touch foo
> $ ln -s foo bar
> ln: failed to create symbolic link 'bar': Operation not permitted

EPERM?  That's fine, actually.


Thanks!


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4b5447f2-a1fe-925e-5e3d-6692347374ad@kit.edu>
2017-04-23 21:13 ` Till Riedel
2017-04-24  4:16   ` Brian Inglis
2017-04-24 16:09     ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-04-24 20:58       ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-04-25  1:46         ` David Macek
2017-04-25  5:26           ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2017-04-13 13:27 Jeffrey Altman
2017-04-23 22:09 ` Thomas Wolff

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