Symbolic links on Windows mounted filesystem fails

[bbusacker]

This is running build 14316.

Here is the command-line and the result.

root@localhost:/mnt/c/dmx# touch file
root@localhost:/mnt/c/dmx# ln -s file filelink
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘filelink’: Operation not permitted

[benhillis]

I can confirm that this has been fixed internally. I just tried this in our dev branch and the exact above commands are working in a /mnt/c directory. The fix is making its way to the flighting branch, sorry no firm ETA.

ben@BENHILL-VM7:/mnt/c/dmx$ touch file
ben@BENHILL-VM7:/mnt/c/dmx$ ln -s file filelink
ben@BENHILL-VM7:/mnt/c/dmx$ ll
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 19 22:11 ./
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 19 22:11 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 19 22:11 file*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 19 22:11 filelink -> file*
ben@BENHILL-VM7:/mnt/c/dmx$

[russalex]

Starting to consolidate bugs. Tracking in #6. Please go ahead and close this one out.

[benhillis]

Closing this out, we'll be using #6 to track this.