On 2020-03-26 05:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 26 10:00, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> A symbolic link created with WSL is neither interpreted in cygwin nor can it >> be deleted: >>> touch file >>> wsl ln -s file link >>> wsl ls -l link >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 towo towo 1 Mar 26 08:56 link -> file >>> ls -l link >> -rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Mar 26 00:00 link > What kind of file are they in the real world? Reparse points? If so, > what content do they have? I attached a Q&D source from my vault > of old test apps to check on reparse point content. Please compile with > gcc -g ../src/rd-reparse.c -o rd-reparse -lntdll > It takes a single native NT path as parameter, kind of like this: > ./rd-reparse '\??\C:\cygwin64\home\corinna\link'
They should be WSL or Windows mklink (soft) links, and the reason why mklink was allowed unelevated in Windows 10 with Developer mode. In an *elevated* shell: $ ls -dln u -rw-r----- 1 4294967295 4294967295 0 Nov 9 06:09 u $ getfacl u getfacl: u: Permission denied $ icacls u u NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,S,REA,WEA,X,DC) $HOSTNAME\$USER:(F) $HOSTNAME\$USER:(RX,W,DC) BUILTIN\Users:(Rc,S,RA) BUILTIN\Administrators:(RX,W,DC) BUILTIN\Users:(DENY)(S,RD,REA,X) Everyone:(RX) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(F) BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F) $HOSTNAME\$USER:(I)(F) Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files $ ./rd-reparse '\??\C:\...\u' ReparseTag: 0xa000001d ReparseDataLength: 5 Reserved: 0 02 00 00 00 75 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
