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From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5347030c-6a88-9b15-570f-0a62e7d6410b@secure-endpoints.com> (raw)

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When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for symlink
creation is disabled:

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#DXz6icKZOkEozgYR.97

This was necessary for symlink creation within WSL to work.



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             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-13 13:27 Jeffrey Altman [this message]
2017-04-23 22:09 ` Thomas Wolff
     [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

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