Sorry for the late reply.
Ran both commands from an elevated shell and it still doesn't work.
I see this was discussed before but there was no concrete conclusion.
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-04/msg00066.html
The two options that do work so far are:
1. Run cygwin as administrator
2.
Sky Diver skydivergm at gmail.com writes:
...
Still, how can I get a normal behavior (i.e. normal Windows symlinks
as produces in winsymlinks:nativestrict mode) in a regular session w/o
elevation?
You could grant the necessary privilege to your account or to the group Users
editrights -u
I'm using cygwin for years already.
I didn't use to have this problem in the past. It's something
relatively new, that became way more intense in the past few months
where I both re-installed windows at home, and got a fresh PC at work.
I had similar problems - and to fix them I did this:
Greetings, Sky Diver!
Hi, in the past several months or so, cygwin started giving me ACL
pain in small surges which are gradually growing..
Here's a basic scenario that is slowly, but surely, driving me NUTZ:
$ ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp /tmp
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/tmp’: Operation
Hey Andrey,
Are you running with superadmin credentials?
Unlike Linux, Windows doesn't let regular users make symlinks.
I'm using cygwin for years already.
I didn't use to have this problem in the past. It's something
relatively new, that became way more intense in the past few months
where I
To Larry Hall:
1. I'd love to reply to your post, but I'm new to this mailing-list
concept so I neglected to subscribe to the mailing list (yeah, I'm an
old fashioned kinda guy, work only with thread-level google-groups /
StackOverflow forum types ;)
TBH: If Andrey wouldn't have CC'ed me on his
On 07/15/2015 04:32 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Sky Diver!
Hi, in the past several months or so, cygwin started giving me ACL
pain in small surges which are gradually growing..
Here's a basic scenario that is slowly, but surely, driving me NUTZ:
$ ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp /tmp
ln:
Hi, in the past several months or so, cygwin started giving me ACL
pain in small surges which are gradually growing..
Here's a basic scenario that is slowly, but surely, driving me NUTZ:
$ ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp /tmp
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/tmp’: Operation not permitted
Some other
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Sky Diver wrote:
$ touch x
$ ls -l x
-rw-rwxr--+ 1 sky None 0 Jul 15 00:46 x*
$ ln -s x y
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘y’: Operation not permitted
I just tried this on a pristine Windows 7 64-bit virtual machine without issue.
You might want to check
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