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Re: Unable to read history on latest Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:42:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: Unable to read history on latest Cygwin
- References: <hg5grr$frf$1@ger.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:07:52PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>the new Cygwin 1.7 release is soon to be released. According to Cygwin
>Project Co-Leader Corinna Vinschen, Cygwin will drop "fake support" for
>emulating hardlinks on FAT32: "Hardlinks on FAT [...] have been faked in
>1.5 by copying the file. The decision was made a couple of weeks back to
>drop this fake since the application should know that the underlying
>filesystem is not capable of creating hardlinks."
>
>The result of that is that I'm not able to run zsh "portable" from a
>FAT32 USB thumb drive: "zsh: failed to create hard link as lock file
>/home/thorsten/.zhistory.LOCK: operation not permitted". (Zsh is running
>but history is neither saved nor written). histfcntllock also results in
>errors.
>
>"Your best bet now might be to report this as an upstream bug to zsh,
>and recommend that they use an alternative approach, such as symlink
>locking (the way emacs does things), if hard link locking doesn't work
>because of the underlying file system."
>
>Bash does not exihibit the error.
Why are you sending this here when Corinna suggested sending it as an
upstream bug? Typo?
cgf
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