On 15 January 2008 03:11, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> 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.
Oh yeh, forgot there were still a few things that can't be handled in wchar
mode. And looking at it the source, it still seems like it's supposed to
munge uppercase chars, so I guess this /is/ a bug rather than a
work-in-progress.
cheers,
DaveK
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