> From: Dave Korn > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:25 PM > Subject: RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding > names on managed mounts > > On 14 January 2008 21:41, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > I'm not sure when this cropped up, but it happened sometime > after the > > great "win 9x" code purge. The problem is that the Cygwin dll no > > longer decodes or encodes file/directory names on managed mounts. > > Isn't that the whole idea? >
Managed mounts? They're intended to handle names with things like ":" in them, which will choke Windows no matter what year is in its name. > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
