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. Dis
Sky Diver gmail.com> writes:
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>
> 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 sky -a
> 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:
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 re
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
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: fai
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’: Opera
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
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 ex
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