On Dec 23 20:09, Lawrence Mayer wrote: > Cygwin 1.7-37 and -36 misname certain hardlinks by adding an extra .exe > extention: e.g. > ln vgaoem.fon .. > creates vgaoem.fon.exe in the parent directory, not vgaoem.fon as expected. > > The same bug occurs with > cp -l vgaoem.fon .. > > This bug occurs when hardlinking all .fon files I have tried, most .sys > files, and some .dll, .com, .drv, .scr, .tlb, ...etc files. The bug appears > consistent: a given file either always or never gets misnamed.
I reproduced and (hopefully) fixed it in CVS. Thanks for the report. However, there's another problem which I'm puzzeling over when trying the above. I created a hardlink from C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\vgaoem.fon to the same file in my home directory: $ pwd /home/corinna $ ln /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/vgaoem.fon . $ ls -l vga* -rwxrwx---+ 2 Administrators SYSTEM 5168 Feb 28 2006 vgaoem.fon That's nice, but then: $ rm -f vgaoem.fon rm: cannot remove `vgaoem.fon': Permission denied And that occurs even though I'm administrator and the unlink(2) call uses the FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT flag. The same happens with all hardlinks to files used by the system. The NT status code returned when trying to set the delete disposition flag is C0000121, STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE. None of the Windows native methods to delete these hardlinks works. I'm still puzzeled how to get rid of them. Does anybody knows how to do that? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
