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From:	Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr AT coresma DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: cygwin 1.5.0 managed mode & backward compatibility
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:12:09 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Wed, July 16, 2003 6:07 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.0 managed mode & backward compatibility
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:48:28PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I installed cygwin 1.5.0 and remounted all cygwin 
> directories (/,/usr/bin,
> >/usr/lib) in managed mode. Now I can't access files that 
> have a capital
> >letters that were created before upgrade to 1.5.0. 
> 
> *exactly*
> 
> Don't do that.  Do not use managed mode on your old 
> directories.  It is
> called "managed" for a reason.  Cygwin wants to manage all 
> file creations.
> So, the only way to use it is to create an empty directory, mount it
> as managed, and then populate it with files.

Do you have any plans to provide backward/windows compatibility for managed
mode? 

> 
> If this is confusing to you, do not use managed mode.
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