From unknown Wed Jun 18 23:11:23 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#7638 <7638@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#7638 <7638@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: question about make link issue Reply-To: bug#7638 <7638@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:11:23 +0000 retitle 7638 question about make link issue reassign 7638 coreutils submitter 7638 Yixuan Huang severity 7638 normal tag 7638 notabug thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Dec 14 09:44:50 2010 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2010 14:44:50 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSW7V-0008J9-DE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:44:50 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSVVK-0007Jy-EI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:05:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSVbL-0007rp-B7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:36 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, T_DKIM_INVALID, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]:51085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSVbL-0007rh-6W for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:35 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58282 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSVbJ-0004AQ-Di for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSVbH-0007qe-NB for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:32 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:46678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSVbH-0007qN-Kl for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:31 -0500 Received: by vws10 with SMTP id 10so185912vws.0 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:11:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=I2GOg2J45YgayDzD6E1+P9x74MtHL61VGA7SZZmlkJM=; b=qXs+X277aeVpMoYtVjPXz769rxbLv7qJxUJlqlek/VoYO8buZtsW79VAA/Dp/lDUtF 4BYpx1sXhXocSThgJ3gsT5y/Z9pmM4CRSpVYwzTIJvSg60Kl1rajElujdzF39szxQdVG 3MZ+gEXpI//5zfUrabU02k1zQXQ9xx4rU2gFg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=O+uBJoj+RJIvSpOrCbOT9Qsgkt3USEXHh5Lnp0khvjPrG3NBpe7xaSWe/M4pObUtwQ q1574YpRWZrjuPwaXq9q9qkzJyIk1aqdnF53flBkYt2IaUbNmcj6lNMQbT7+bK/u5n7Z ozE77pVB7RBV3fRhYPJ1bJDR9gBp3/BSiC3fs= Received: by 10.229.110.10 with SMTP id l10mr31323qcp.56.1292335890864; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:11:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.195.66 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:11:10 -0800 (PST) From: Yixuan Huang Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:11:10 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: question about make link issue To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:44:47 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Hello, When I try to make link on partition which mount from windwos through cifs. It will be prompt like: ln: creating symbolic link `aa.lnk': Operation not supported Do we have any work around method to get it work if I want to make link on it? Thanks, yixuan From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Dec 14 09:59:07 2010 Received: (at 7638) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2010 14:59:07 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSWLK-0000Gh-8A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:59:06 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSWLH-0000GD-CB for 7638@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:59:04 -0500 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBEF5F5t019183 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:05:16 -0500 Received: from [10.3.113.37] (ovpn-113-37.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.37]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oBEF5F59029623; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:05:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4D0787AA.1070909@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:05:14 -0700 From: Eric Blake Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yixuan Huang Subject: Re: bug#7638: question about make link issue References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCF22333FE8AFD8A6649B0975" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-Spam-Score: -10.2 (----------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 7638 Cc: 7638@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -10.2 (----------) This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCF22333FE8AFD8A6649B0975 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/14/2010 07:11 AM, Yixuan Huang wrote: > Hello, > When I try to make link on partition which mount from windwos through > cifs. It will be prompt like: > ln: creating symbolic link `aa.lnk': Operation not supported >=20 > Do we have any work around method to get it work if I want to make link= on it? Thanks for the report; however, it is lacking a bit in details. What machine are you running 'ln' on - Windows or a Unix-like system? And which system is hosting the cifs drive that your local machine is trying to access? Also, if you are using ln on windows, where did you get it? If it is from cygwin, there have been some recent improvements to make cygwin try to use native symlinks rather than windows .lnk files on remote drives that have an appropriate extension, although that may only be samba rather than cifs. If it is from mingw, there's no symlink support whatsoever (since native windows symlink support was a relatively recent addition, and is incompatible with POSIX semantics for symlinks). You may be better off taking your issue to the distro where you got your copy of ln, since we probably won't be able to help you much here. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enigCF22333FE8AFD8A6649B0975 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNB4eqAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nq46gH/RWc0pMHPSSxgxcjkU5Yif2j hVdHstCt1Jkl5+xCKVu7SxnyR5qff1b4JcKvX0tVWCLnUMhlDZOftacEPEXH425R RxuTzH5AMOde0jpPsCnkwBLlU1SeOZzWWD35mDWHdAJ5cc0ArdpFb/AhVxFCsrki 4hhD6d/TZu2p63tFLjBaHxPWOrQDgTbq4BJrJpdQ/83oOyp2HYEGzhsA9hHdKmbG PrPoSmdeM/hnPETDZwGTYNG3k4xHDC9ZLqzG1vREqmovKfmBlwS65HhtJnUZi2xV Con698XDRPUKcjgR0ifrlWG9wign/jQGblnVNm8myP3/PUNOqx9eXaH/znK0H9U= =TILJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCF22333FE8AFD8A6649B0975-- From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Dec 15 09:44:38 2010 Received: (at 7638) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2010 14:44:38 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSsas-0000gT-0h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:44:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSsao-0000gG-Fr for 7638@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:44:35 -0500 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBFEooWM024425 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:50:50 -0500 Received: from [10.3.113.37] (ovpn-113-37.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.37]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBFEomNL009607; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:50:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4D08D5C8.8020401@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:50:48 -0700 From: Eric Blake Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yixuan Huang , 7638@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#7638: question about make link issue References: <4D0787AA.1070909@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig08781D47B4D85FAEF14510E5" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-Spam-Score: -10.2 (----------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 7638 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -10.2 (----------) This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig08781D47B4D85FAEF14510E5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [please keep the list in the loop] On 12/14/2010 10:09 PM, Yixuan Huang wrote: > Dear Eric, > Thanks for your response. > I ran ln on sles11 x64, and mount windos shared folder through mount -t= cifs. > My scripts will do ln -s xx xx.so, so it will report error and said lik= e: > tar: pegasus/lib/libpegcommon.so: Cannot create symlink to > `libpegcommon.so.1': Operation not supported Thanks for the additional information. It sounds like you are running into the issue on the Linux side of things, where you are locating files on a cifs mount hosted natively by Windows. Remember, Windows has very poor symlink support, and cifs is accurately reporting that it cannot create a symlink because the underlying file system on the native Windows side can't represent symlinks. This is not a bug in ln, but a fundamental limitation of your choice of file system. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig08781D47B4D85FAEF14510E5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNCNXIAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nqe9UH/jz4Y6sEXRoG0u4n4yietXZ9 XNyHn0ex1vJKrvdJ6BVBfT3szn/oUwu+kBqNaQ8YIG0lqwERZolBleLPc2OGZBLX 0IXqnXWJoHRRs2SD2MHAi/wM5IcL33t9Rgvg8KqjdAxl8xUg426qL13S8d7sCLCT 7L0Xzdla9+2QAldihb/3kqFL41kgVDjjvWuq8iRqoHVscK86erUN2H7cEon27mVz utqr1B05vl57rOGUlhi2gsdSjNCEn4KXy6IOiL/F2S/E324Hsy3SvXuL63U8BQ+K LLqf3CK/qCo8ILrpDKRK09tVVycmhFJUshOr8OzR6UulHfdqRRRNHCWP9qA8O0k= =UL3H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig08781D47B4D85FAEF14510E5-- From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Nov 13 06:57:57 2011 Received: (at 7638) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Nov 2011 11:57:58 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPYh8-00043b-Q8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:57:56 -0500 Received: from mx.meyering.net ([88.168.87.75]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPYh5-00043Q-PM; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:57:52 -0500 Received: from rho.meyering.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister) with ESMTP id 72DFC6019A; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:57:23 +0100 (CET) From: Jim Meyering To: Eric Blake Subject: Re: bug#7638: question about make link issue In-Reply-To: <4D08D5C8.8020401@redhat.com> (Eric Blake's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:50:48 -0700") References: <4D0787AA.1070909@redhat.com> <4D08D5C8.8020401@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:57:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5vkmdzw.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Lines: 24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -2.7 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 7638 Cc: 7638@debbugs.gnu.org, Yixuan Huang X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -2.7 (--) tags 7638 notabug close 7638 thanks Eric Blake wrote: > [please keep the list in the loop] > > On 12/14/2010 10:09 PM, Yixuan Huang wrote: >> Dear Eric, >> Thanks for your response. >> I ran ln on sles11 x64, and mount windos shared folder through mount -t cifs. >> My scripts will do ln -s xx xx.so, so it will report error and said like: >> tar: pegasus/lib/libpegcommon.so: Cannot create symlink to >> `libpegcommon.so.1': Operation not supported > > Thanks for the additional information. It sounds like you are running > into the issue on the Linux side of things, where you are locating files > on a cifs mount hosted natively by Windows. Remember, Windows has very > poor symlink support, and cifs is accurately reporting that it cannot > create a symlink because the underlying file system on the native > Windows side can't represent symlinks. This is not a bug in ln, but a > fundamental limitation of your choice of file system. Closing as "notabug". From unknown Wed Jun 18 23:11:23 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:24:03 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator