Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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
least READ_CONTROL access.


Corinna

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