From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127052 invoked by alias); 10 May 2015 21:27:33 -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 127044 invoked by uid 89); 10 May 2015 21:27:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qk0-f175.google.com Received: from mail-qk0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-qk0-f175.google.com) (209.85.220.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 10 May 2015 21:27:31 +0000 Received: by qkhg7 with SMTP id g7so76689540qkh.2 for ; Sun, 10 May 2015 14:27:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.55.48.16 with SMTP id w16mr16188844qkw.13.1431293249865; Sun, 10 May 2015 14:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.96.114.201 with HTTP; Sun, 10 May 2015 14:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 23:34:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Cannot create a native symlink in not current directory From: =?UTF-8?B?0J/RkdGC0YAg0JEu?= To: cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 ln -s x y Everything works. ln -s x ../y >ln: failed to create symbolic link =E2=80=98../y=E2=80=99: No such file or= directory Now it is interesting. WHAT IS THIS. Am I not getting something? Same command works perfectly with non-native links. CYGWIN_NT-6.1 USER 2.0.1(0.287/5/3) 2015-04-30 18:15 x86_64 Cygwin CYGWIN=3D"wincmdln winsymlinks:nativestrict" -- 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