From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 114768 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2017 09:26:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 114754 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2017 09:26:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=elevation, H*M:72f9, wsl, Hx-languages-length:899 X-HELO: scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu Received: from scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu (HELO scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu) (129.13.231.82) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 09:26:45 +0000 Received: from teco141pc.teco.kit.edu ([129.13.170.141] helo=teco141pc.teco.edu) by scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (envelope-from ) id 1d2Dn2-00022X-2I for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:26:44 +0200 Received: from p4fd23baf.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.210.59.175] helo=[192.168.178.83]) by teco141pc.teco.edu with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d2Dn1-0005Xg-CK auth-from riedel for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:26:43 +0200 Subject: Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4b5447f2-a1fe-925e-5e3d-6692347374ad@kit.edu> From: Till Riedel Message-ID: <60bf66d9-d467-3cac-72f9-7823d1c1c32a@teco.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:13:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4b5447f2-a1fe-925e-5e3d-6692347374ad@kit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00296.txt.bz2 Hi all, I was really excited to hear this! I tried to export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict" and create symlink without elevation and failed on cygwin 2.8.0 (checked that "cmd /C mklink" works as expected in Windows 10 Creators Update Developer Mode). Any ideas if there are any extra checks that lead to "Operation not permitted"? Windows seemingly even allows symlinks to nonexistent files (I somehow think there was a problem with that in the past). For me personally this would a strong reason to switch to real symlinks. Best regards, Till Am 13.04.2017 um 0:29 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: > 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple