windows git bash shell

[nikdow]

Running in MIGW64 provided by git for windows
sfw npm update
/ downloading latest sfw binary...Failed to create latest symlink: Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink 'C:\Users\nik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sfw.sfw-cache\v0.12.22\sfw-free-windows-x86_64.exe' -> 'C:\Users\nik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sfw.sfw-cache\latest'
at Object.symlinkSync (node:fs:1890:11)
at trySymlinkLatest (file:///C:/Users/nik/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/sfw/dist/sfw.mjs:2232:9)
at downloadAndVerifyReleaseSync (file:///C:/Users/nik/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/sfw/dist/sfw.mjs:2259:5)
at async ensureLatestBinary (file:///C:/Users/nik/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/sfw/dist/sfw.mjs:2279:12)
at async main (file:///C:/Users/nik/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/sfw/dist/sfw.mjs:2294:20) {
errno: -4048,
code: 'EPERM',
syscall: 'symlink',
path: 'C:\Users\nik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sfw\.sfw-cache\v0.12.22\sfw-free-windows-x86_64.exe',
dest: 'C:\Users\nik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sfw\.sfw-cache\latest'
}

[nikdow]

Works in Windows PowerShell.

[divmain]

It seems odd that the sfw wrapper would not have permission to modify the file-path that it originally created. If it failed at this point, it means it succeeded in removing the previous symlink.

It might take me a few days, but I'll see if I can reproduce. This might be a quirk of mingw + symllinks that we'll need to work around somehow.