Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  7 11:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Maybe it's something with your permissions.
> > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI2(*)
> > Thanks for trying. Sorry about forgetting the version info, although 
> > (and I forgot to mention this too, more apologies...) 'ren' in cmd.com 
> > also fails, which is why I am pretty sure the problem is that for some 
> > unknown reason, rename() (meaning Windows' API) fails on NFS if the 
> > target already exists, at least under whatever combinations of 
> > permissions I have... with error 17 (ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE) of all 
> > things (which Cygwin translates to 18=EXDEV). I think the real question 
> > is 'should ar and/or Cygwin work around this apparent Windows bug'?
>
> If even the native Windows tool fails...
>
> Definitely not ar since that's a generic problem, not a binutils tool
> problem.

Right, that's why I was thinking Cygwin (i.e. cygwin1.dll) would need to 
change. But... (cont'd at the bottom)

> I have my doubts that we really should workaround anything
> here.  The first question is, what *exactly* is the problem we should
> workaround?  If it's only a permission problem there's nothing to
> workaround for us.

I don't think so, since 'mv' succeeds (but then it also tries harder, 
i.e. removing the target and doing a copy followed by an unlink).

> > D'oh! And I have more information... it only fails on Win2k3 (which 
> > means SUA, not SFU). I just tried on my XP machine and 'ar' succeeds.
> >
> > getfacl doesn't have much to say:
>
> Forget getfacl.  NFS doesn't support ACLs so there's no such thing
> as Windows security settings.  The actual relevant settings are in
> the SFU or SUA MMC snap-in.

IOW the Unix permissions (as read by SUA)? Those're fine. In fact they 
*do* match what getfacl is reporting except that group = 0 (wheel), 
which apparently isn't mapping correctly.

> Actually, if you ask me, your goal is to get the native ren working.
> If you can't get this working, you will have to ask Microsoft, IMHO.

...and since I realized that the problem is in (newer) SUA and not 
(older) SFU, there might be hope there. And thanks anyway. :-)

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