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On Oct 18 13:08, Warren wrote: > On 10/18/2013 12:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >- The user token contains a privilege, but it's disabled. > > > > The process can not perform the dangerous action secured by that > > privilege. But it can enable the privilege if it wants to perform > > that action. > > Thanks for the explanation. > > I tried two machines here and apparently the privilege can be set on > both of them without being Administrator, Are you sure? Did you test it by running $ CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native ln -s foo bar by any chance? If so, there's a surprise waiting for you. The symlinks will be generated, but they are Cygwin default symlinks, not native symlinks. Try this instead $ CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict ln -s foo bar and see the user's guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html > so I don't even know if > it's worth chasing this test. That is, I don't know if ln(1) prints > a helpful error when the link cannot be created. If it says > something vague like "permission denied", I'm thinking it would be > helpful to pre-diagnose the problem in the wrapper script. No, it's the much better "Operation not permitted" (EPERM). It's perfectly matching the situation so I don't think any further diagnosis is necessary (unless you want to explain the user exactly what's going on). But still, it will only occur with CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict, see above. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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