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Subject:	RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed mounts
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:11:00 -0600
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> 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


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