Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 24 18:52, David Macek wrote: > > ver > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063] > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mew 2.8.1(0.310/5/3) x86_64 Cygwin > > === Developer mode DISabled, non-elevated Administrators account > > > echo > foo > > mklink bar foo > You do not have sufficient privilege

Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-24 Thread David Macek
> ver Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063] $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mew 2.8.1(0.310/5/3) x86_64 Cygwin === Developer mode DISabled, non-elevated Administrators account > echo > foo > mklink bar foo You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation. $ export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:

Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 24 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 23 09:21, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2017-04-23 03:26, Till Riedel wrote: > > > I was really excited to hear this! > > > I tried to export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict" and create > > > symlink without elevation and failed on cygwin 2.8.0 (check

Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 23 09:21, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-04-23 03:26, Till Riedel wrote: > > Am 13.04.2017 um 0:29 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: > >> When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for > >> symlink creation is disabled: > >> https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windo

Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-04-23 03:26, Till Riedel wrote: > Am 13.04.2017 um 0:29 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: >> When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for >> symlink creation is disabled: >> https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#DXz6icKZOkEozgYR.97 >> This was necessar

Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 13.04.2017 um 06:29 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for symlink creation is disabled: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#DXz6icKZOkEozgYR.97 This was necessary for symlink creation within WSL to work. I unde

Re: Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-23 Thread Till Riedel
Hi all, I was really excited to hear this! I tried to export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict" and create symlink without elevation and failed on cygwin 2.8.0 (checked that "cmd /C mklink" works as expected in Windows 10 Creators Update Developer Mode). Any ideas if there are any extra check